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Police Minister Bheki Cele.
- Police Minister Bheki Cele has already met with EFF leader Julius Malema and will soon meet with FF Plus leader Pieter Groenewald about Senekal.
- He will also meet the family of the murdered Brendin Horner.
- Cele warned that while everything possible will be done to guarantee peace, the authority of the State will be protected.
Police Minister Bheki Cele has already met with EFF leader Julius Malema and will soon meet with FF Plus leader Pieter Groenewald to ensure that peace prevails in Senekal at the next appearance before the court of the men accused of murdering 21-year-old farm manager Brendin. Horner.
However, the state will also be willing to guarantee that its authority is respected, Cele warned.
On Friday, Cele told News24 editor Adriaan Basson that she will meet with Malema and Groenewald.
Speaking at the launch of the new Independent Police Investigation Directorate (IPID) hotline on Monday, Cele said she will visit Horner’s family prior to her court appearance on Friday.
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“The situation there is tense, the situation is dangerous, the situation could go the other way around and nobody controls it,” Cele said.
“I was almost late here this morning because I had a meeting with the EFF leader,” he said, adding that he hopes to meet Groenewald within 24 hours.
“So we’ve agreed that we will have to be really mature, provide leadership. Let’s do everything we can to avoid those things,” he said.
“But that doesn’t mean that the state is going to abandon the authority of the state. People cannot come there and harass the state and do the things they did in Senekal again. It cannot be allowed.
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“This time, we will be ready. This time, we will be there, to protect state property, to protect the integrity of the state and to protect human beings.”
“Even when those people are suspicious, [they] it can’t be given [in] to anyone’s hand. We are not in a country where it is allowed, no matter who it is, to take the law into your own hand. “
While one man has already been arrested after Tuesday’s protest against farm killings turned violent, with the Senekal Magistrates Court stormed and a police vehicle overturned and set on fire, Cele asked police to arrest the women as well. other people “who caused trouble.”
“They have to be arrested, no matter who they are, no matter where they are, they broke the law. They burned the police van. You will remember that the young man from Fees Must Fall was given four years for burning a police van, so no it may be that no other person is different.
“We will work hard [to ensure] that peace prevails there, but whoever crosses the line, the power of the state will prevail. “
