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Anti-Mbeki Sentiment at Zuma Trial |
| Publication |
The Witness |
| Date | 2006-09-06 |
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Reporter |
Sibonelo Msomi |
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Web Link |
kwaZulu-Natal
MEC for Community Safety and Liaison Bheki Cele had a tough time trying to
control crowds who were chanting anti-Mbeki slogans and brandishing derogatory
posters in front of the Pietermaritzburg High Court yesterday.
Cele was
up and down trying to keep discipline among the supporters, who were mainly from
the ANC/SACP/Cosatu Alliance and started chanting anti-Mbeki slogans on Monday
night when they held an all-night vigil until ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma
arrived at the court yesterday.
Despite the ANC’s call for discipline to
their members at the event, supporters were not deterred from chanting
anti-Mbeki slogans and waving posters brandishing
rude remarks *1 about Mbeki.
ANC provincial
Chairman S’bu Ndebele, who was inside court with Zuma during the proceedings,
said everything went well inside.
When asked about the chanting of
anti-Mbeki slogans outside court, Ndebele said: “We are not aware of that. We
were inside court and did not hear that.”
He went on to express his
opinion that the ANC was happy by the way the proceedings went inside court and
said that “justice will prevail” for Zuma.
With acknowledgements to Sibonelo Msomi and The Witness.