Cele must stop making up excuses for not arresting Zuma and not taking any action against those who violated Covid-19 regulations
6 July 2021
The Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, must stop making excuses and must do his job by seeing to it that former President Jacob Zuma is arrested. Zuma is not above the law and cannot insist on preferential treatment.
The events that transpired at the weekend – a large crowd gathered at Nkandla – also demonstrate the police force's incompetence. The police's apparent inability to control the crowd also points to their inadequate crowd-control training.
If police officers had been properly trained in this regard, they would have known how to handle the situation and those who had violated Covid-19 safety and security measures would have been arrested.
The excuse put forward by Minister Cele that the police had information which indicated that there was a whole crowd of people who were armed is a poor excuse.