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Police Minister Bheki Cele said he knew something was coming and that unrest was brewing in KwaZulu-Natal leading up to former president Jacob Zuma's imprisonment but that he received no intelligence on that.
Returning to the SA Human Rights Commission hearings, Police Minister Bheki Cele said he had received informal intelligence from ‘Good Samaritans’ that unrest was brewing ahead of the July 2021 riots. He claimed he received no reports from Crime Intelligence ahead of the widespread violence...
Police Minister Bheki Cele has claimed that he was shut out of police intelligence briefings and didn't receive any information ahead of last year's July unrest.
Police minister Bheki Cele has reiterated that while it had been clear that violence and rioting would break out in KwaZulu-Natal ahead of last year's July unrest, no intelligence was given to him by intelligence structures, including the SA Police Service’s crime intelligence division.
The police minister was accounting for how the South African Police Service fell short in its response to the July unrest that claimed more than 300 lives.