Police Minister Bheki Cele. Image: Facebook/SAPS.
‘This is not an inheritance,’ Cele says not worried about reshuffle
As cabinet reshuffle looms, Police Minister Bheki Cele says he is not worried and will continue to do his work until such time he is removed.
Police Minister Bheki Cele. Image: Facebook/SAPS.
Police Minister Bheki Cele says he is not worried about the looming cabinet reshuffle and whether he will remain police minister.
According to The Sowetan, Cele said this on Thursday, 2 March during a visit to the Sophiatown police station amid a resurgence of gang-related violence in nearby Westbury.
‘WHY SHOULD I BE WORRIED?’
“Why should I be worried? I did not ask when I was put [in] and I will not ask why I am removed. So why should I be worried?
“This is not an inheritance … this is a job, you do the job you are given. When the job is taken and given to someone else, you go on with life. Do you think I can stop working and be worried about coming in? It’s not a stokvel here. We work,” the report quoted Cele as saying.
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A CABINET RESHUFFLE WAS HOPED TO TAKE PLACE LAST MONTH
The South African previously reported that African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile Mbalula believed that the long-awaited cabinet reshuffle was gonna take place before the end of February.
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Mbalula said the president was applying his mind on a whole lot of issues and those issues should be finalised by the end of February.
However, the month of February ended and the cabinet reshuffle is yet to take place.
The reshuffle could see several senior ministers leaving the executive.
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CELE SPEAKS ON GANG-RELATED MURDERS IN WESTBURY
Speaking on the gang-related murders in Westbury, Cele said that the police management in the province, along with other departments, has put in place measures to deal with the gang-related war.
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“We put some ways for the police to deal with the situation, we dealt with the situation, it has come up again. We are here with a problem that started to escalate to this level on Friday. We have 13 people shot, unfortunately, two of those passed on. Police have put in measures, which we believe are temporary measures, before we come back with a formula that works, The Citizen quoted Cele as saying.
