Bheki Cele is unfit to oversee SAPS and must be investigated by Parliament
19 April 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will be referring Police Minister Bheki Cele to Parliament’s Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests to investigate his conduct during the national lockdown.
The Minister has made a number of reckless comments in the past 21 days which have shocked the nation and created an environment in which SAPS may have felt emboldened to act outside of the law. These include:
Cele suggested that SAPS “push” people home and said that SAPS must deal with criminals “harshly” even going so far as to instruct SAPS: “do not be nice to suspects”.