July 2021 unrest: State wants to add terrorism, treason charges: The culprits behind the July 2021 unrest could soon also be facing charges of terrorism and treason.
This is according to police minister Bheki Cele, who told the media on the sidelines of the ANC national executive committee meeting at Birchwood on the East Rand the state was looking into adding more charges.
The state, according to Cele, is looking into amending the charge sheet from incitement of violence to terrorism and treason. “What we are doing with them, we are increasing the charges, we want to move the charges from ordinary incitement and all to terrorism and terrorism,” said Cele. “So it looks like we’re finding that there’s quite some good except that Mercedes-Benz guy that has been sentenced. There are many more that are going to be coming.”
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