Zuma dug in his heels and earned a 15-month sentence for contempt of court. This prompted him to visit Zuma at Nkandla in an attempt to persuade him to cooperate with the Zondo commission of inquiry. “It could not be true that we could not see that the dark clouds were gathering, going forward,” he said at the outset. In a statement to the HRC, Cele said it was not true that the police and the government were unaware that the arrest could trigger violence. Police Minister Bheki Cele told the Human Rights Commission (HRC) on Friday that he had expected trouble over the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma in July, and had spent the night it happened in nail-biting negotiations and constant contact with President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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