Duduzile Zuma set to appear in court for 2021 July unrest case
Duduzile Zuma shared a series of controversial tweets during the July unrest, some of which were considered inciting and inflammatory.
UMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party member of Parliament Duduzile Zuma is set to appear at the Durban Magistrate’s Court concerning the July 2021 unrest.
Zuma is expected to appear in court on Thursday, 30 January.
DUDUZILE ZUMA TO APPEAR IN COURT
In July 2021, Zuma’s supporters in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal protested against his incarceration resulting in riots and looting that destroyed a number of businesses and over 300 people died.
Zuma was jailed at the Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal on 8 July 2021 and was subsequently placed on medical parole on 5 September 2021 “due to the seriousness of his illness”.
A number of people have since been arrested and are already serving sentences while others are still appearing in court.
In 2022, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) confirmed they are looking into whether Zuma was involved in the July riots.
The MK Party member of Parliament posted a series of controversial tweets during the unrest, some of which were deemed inciteful and inflammatory. She had been taking to social media to express gratitude to those who protested in support of her father.
Zuma-Sambudla’s name even appeared during the South African Human Rights Commission‘s probe into the July violence.
Jean le Roux, a research associate at the Digital Forensic Research Lab, told the commission that Zuma’s daughter engaged in the most celebratory posts during the chaos, citing her Twitter posts.
“She did this quite prolifically throughout the unrest. In some cases, she was also the one that took truck protests from the year before and attached that same statement to those tweets, giving the impression that these are protests happening in support of her father and his incarceration,” Le Roux said.