“It is very painful to see your very own comrades being arrested for graft. It is very painful, it’s not a nice thing,” he said.
He said it was also disturbing to see former president Jacob Zuma being incarcerated in a democratic country that he fought for.“Even with Zuma it was very painful. Imagine seeing an old man, worst of all a freedom fighter, going into prison at 12 at night and then him being incarcerated,” Mbalula said.
His comments come days after former Speaker of the National Assembly, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, was arrested for corruption and money laundering.Instead, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa said Mapisa-Nqakula had done the honorable thing by resigning as the Speaker of Parliament.
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