By Marcus Moloko
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) member and daughter of former President Jacob Zuma, pleaded not guilty on Monday in the Durban High Court to charges of incitement to commit terrorism and two counts of incitement to commit public violence.
The charges stem from her role as an alleged instigator in the July 2021 riots that ripped through KwaZulu-Natal and, to a lesser extent, Gauteng, when her father was facing arrest on contempt of court charges.
More than 300 people, the majority of them rioters and looters, were killed, and businesses across KwaZulu-Natal, and some in Gauteng, were looted and torched during the eight days of civil unrest that President Cyril Ramaphosa described as a “failed insurrection”.
Zuma-Sambudla arrived at court accompanied by MK party strategist Nhlamulo Ndlhela, Jacob Zuma, former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede, and MKP senior members David Skosana and Des van Rooyen.
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