A community policing engagement in Gugulethu descended into a shouting match yesterday when an angry Police Minister Bheki Cele ripped into a civil rights lobby group leader who claimed he was failing in his ministerial duties to protect local residents from serious crimes.
Cele was attending a consultative meeting between police, community organisations, and residents of Nyanga and Gugulethu when Action Society director Ian Cameron interrupted him and highlighted that the minister had utterly failed in protecting citizens or adequately deploying police to crime hotspots.
Speaking to News24, Cameron blamed Cele for turning the engagement into a political issue.