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A “platoon” of military veterans will maintain a “constant presence” outside of former President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla farm to “protect” him.
This is according to uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) spokesman Carl Niehaus speaking to TimesLIVE after a marathon meeting between the association and the former president on Thursday.
Niehaus said the meeting, which lasted more than seven hours, “went very well.” He said there was an in-depth discussion on the “current state of affairs in SA, ”and they spoke“ in detail ”about Zuma’s defiance of an order from the Constitutional Court that required him to appear before the state capture commission.
“At the meeting, he reiterated that he is definitely not going to the commission,” Niehaus said.
It was a decision, he said, the MKMVA “fully supported.”
Niehaus added that military veterans were “fundamentally opposed to any arrest warrant and his arrest ”.
“We will do everything in our power to protect him and prevent him from being arrested. One pBrass soldiers from MKMVA were in Nkandla when we arrived and formed an honor guard. The intention is for them to stay there and to change platoons from time to time. But there will be a constant presence to protect President Zuma, ”Niehaus said.
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