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Police Minister Bheki Cele has applauded the 12-year direct imprisonment sentence for one of the July unrest instigators, saying it was bolstered by the work that police investigations had put in and promised that the police expect to make more arrests.
Cele was speaking at the INTERPOL 91ST Annual General Meeting in Vienna and praised the detective work done in leading to the sentencing of Mdumiseni Khetha Zulu who was found guilty by the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court on Wednesday, for his part in inciting violence during the 2021 July unrests in KwaZulu Natal and in Gauteng.
“The Detective work gives us hope that the outstanding suspects will receive a similar fate especially with the escalated charges for instigators and this sentence clearly illustrates that the long arm of the law will not be selective nor will it be kind,” said Cele.
He added as police investigations continue, and
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