Almost two months after his release on parole, Fees Must Fall activist Kanya Cekeshe says he finds being given special remission conflicting.
Cekeshe spoke to News24 on Monday, reflecting on the student movement, his arrest and his release in December 2019.
One of his parole conditions was that he must report to a police station twice a month and should not leave Gauteng without informing the authorities. “Should I break any one of those conditions, it’s back to jail, and on top of that, there is still the three-year suspended sentence adding to everything else,” Cekeshe said.Speaking at the Day of Reconciliation celebrations in Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal, in December 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that some inmates would receive special reduced prison sentences as the country celebrated 25 years of democracy.
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