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"There cannot be any room for threats of instability in order to register objections or concerns about the electoral processes," Police Minister Bheki Cele said at a news conference.

Bheki Cele, minister for the police, accepts there's a big issue and says violent crime rates are "not pleasing at all".

Police Minister Bheki Cele said most of the dead councillors had been victims of internal political battles.

In April 2021, police minister Bheki Cele said 411,309 people had been arrested for breaching lockdown regulations.

If those two don’t come to the table, we are not going to be resolving this matter,” Police Minister Cele said.