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Mantashe believes that he did not violate the law.
When asked if the event continued on Tuesday despite Ramaphosa’s announcement, he said: “It did not continue on Tuesday. Tuesday is the day we manage people outside the event … “
On whether he asked his guests to leave, he said: “The families were together, one is from Polokwane and the other is from Cala and people in general think you can tell the people of Polokwane that, ‘hey, come into your combi now, the president just announced … you don’t deal with people like that because it’s a lifelong relationship, okay. “
Mantashe added: “(Cogta Minister) Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma) called on South Africans to conclude the planned events and not plan new events. I didn’t have a new wedding on Tuesday, I had a wedding that was supposed to last two days and on the second day we had to arrange it. “
When asked again if he did not violate the law, he said: “That is why I made sure that at 8 in the morning of the next day I was at the police station talking to the commander of the police station, explaining the reality that I faced and I asked them to help me. handle that thing.
“The police came here and they never arrested anyone, they never told people to stop anything, they worked with us to ask people in groups to leave.”
When asked if alcohol was consumed on Tuesday, “Even on Monday, mna (me), I do not drink alcohol.”
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