Police Minister Bheki Cele apologised to the Muslim community in South Africa for 'blasphemous remarks' allegedly made by police officers arresting about 24 Muslim worshippers.
Pretoria – Police Minister Bheki Cele on Sunday apologised to the Muslim community in South Africa for "blasphemous remarks" allegedly made by police officers arresting about 24 Muslim worshippers in Masibekela in the Mbuzini area in Mpumalanga earlier this weekend.
“Minister Cele wishes to emphasise that police have a constitutional obligation to enforce the laws of the country, a duty to be executed within the confines of the same laws, applied with no prejudice against any gender, race, or creed,” Peters said. “While we accept the right of the officers to enforce the law, which still does not allow religious gatherings, it is the abusive and heavy-handed nature of the SAPS officers which we call out as unacceptable,” the Johannesburg-based council said in a statement.
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