The police negotiated with former president Jacob Zuma for nine hours before he was arrested late on Wednesday night, police minister Bheki Cele revealed on Friday morning.
Police minister Bheki Cele told media and police on Friday that the negotiations to arrest former president Jacob Zuma took about nine hours.The police negotiated with former president Jacob Zuma for nine hours before he was arrested late on Wednesday night.
This was revealed by police minister Bheki Cele when he told media on Friday morning that the plan to arrest Zuma had been set in motion from 2pm on Wednesday when high-ranking police officials met with the 79-year-old in his Nkandla home. Cele was addressing hundreds of police members in Empangeni, in northern KwaZulu-Natal. He congratulated them on an operation aimed at avoiding bloodshed and violence in the region building up to Zuma’s arrest.
“I want to take an extra salute for Maj-Gen Nhlanhla Zulu [head of operational response services] who had been in the home of the former president since 2pm in negotiations.” Police minister Bheki Cele has revealed that high-ranking police officials negotiated with former president
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