ACTION Society’s Ian Cameron has opened a case against Police Minister Bheki Cele and the cops.
Cameron was dragged out of the Gugulethu Hall in Cape Town on Tuesday, 5 July. He opened a case of crimen injuria and common assault at Gugulethu cop shop on Thursday, 7 July.
He also said he felt that his dignity was dented.
Cameron said up to now, he hasn’t been told why he was kicked out of the meeting since cops didn’t charge him for any crime. “The way he reacted did not only try to infringe or damage my dignity but he also tried to embarrass me,” he said.
“I think Minister Cele did more damage to his own reputation I think he has lost contact with what is happening on the ground in a place like Gugulethu.”
Cameron who was chased out of the meeting said cops didn’t charge him with any crime. He also said he doesn’t know who gave the order to remove him from the meeting.
Cele started by ordering Cameron to sit down after he stood up while the minister was talking. After he refused to sit and talked while Cele was addressing residents, the minister lost it and shouted at him.
“I posed no threat to the minister. I was sitting at the back and the next moment, I was being forcefully removed,” Cameron told Daily Sun.
He said that Cele kicked him out of the meeting when he was fighting for the safety of the whole of Mzansi.
“I think the most important charge is the assault charge.
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“It’s not common assault for assaulting me personally. It’s because of a dangerous precedent that was set on Tuesday that if you challenge a political authority, then you get forcibly removedI didn’t speak on behalf of Ian Cameron, I spoke on behalf of 67 people who were murdered yesterday, 67 people that will be murdered today and 67 people who will be murdered tomorrow in South Africa,” he said.
Asked why he interrupted the minister, Cameron said he couldn’t sit down to allow Cele to speak because the minister had insinuated that Cameron was thinking of him as the child of a garden boy and kitchen girl.
DA provincial member of parliament Gillion Bosman said: “Minister Cele has now truly lost the plot. His tirade is further proof that he simply does not care about finding solutions to the violence faced by our communities.”
Cele’s spokeswoman Lirandzu Themba confirmed the developments.
“We are aware of the developments,” she said.
