Police, NPA dispel March and March arrest claims
Police set the record straight and dismissed rumours of a warrant of arrest issued against Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, and Xolani Zuma.
Police, and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) have dismissed viral claims that a warrant of arrest was issued for the arrest of March and March and South Africa First Forum leaders.
This follows the anti-illegal immigration movement’s statement, indicating their knowledge of a pending arrest of its leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, and SA First Forum acting CEO, Xolani Zuma.
Sandile Dube, national spokesperson of March and March, said, “Maximum prison beds have already been prepared to detain citizen activists in effort to cause civil unrest, and disruption of the coming elections on November 4. We knew three months ago that an executive committee meeting of a failing political movement met to discuss whether to arrest our leaders before or after the elections.
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“The March and March movement views this reckless, politically motivated move as a deliberate strategy from the Presidency to plunge the country into chaos, and disrupt elections in order to avoid embarrassment faced by the failing political party ahead of the elections,” Dube said.
KZN SAPS spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda warned that the allegations could cause panic on the ground.
“Police would like to set the record straight and dismiss rumours of any warrant of arrest issued against the two individuals. As a matter of fact, police do not have a trace of any case registered against the two,” Netshiunda said.
The NPA, responding to the March and March statement, denied issuing the warrant of arrest nor receiving any instructions from anyone on its prosecutorial decisions.
“The NPA makes independent and impartial prosecutorial decisions, guided only by the Constitution, legislation and evidence. As a general principle, the NPA does not normally make comments on matters of operations such as possible arrests and investigations before the law enforcement process involved is completed. Once a matter is enrolled in the courts, the charges and reasons for prosecution will become known through the normal judicial process,” said NPA national spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago.
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