The daughter of former President Jacob Zuma, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, will be charged with inciting terrorism that led to the deaths of 354 people in July 2021.

It has been reported that Zuma-Sambudla will face a charge of incitement to commit terrorism when she appears in the Durban Magistrate's Court tomorrow.

‘This is an invitation to mobilise all ground forces to attend in numbers,’ the party posted on X. MKP spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela confirmed that Zuma-Sambudla's attorney was served with the charges last week. The party yesterday urged its members to come out to support her. 

EWN reports that Zuma-Sambudla was vocal on X during the carnage, posting images of the destruction and a caption that read: ‘KZN, we see you.’

Last night, she took to X again, posting ‘WE SEE YOU’.

A source told News24 that Zuma-Sambudla will be charged in terms of section 14 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities Act.

The section reads: ‘Any person who threatens, attempts, conspires with any other person; or aids, abets, induces, incites, instigates, instructs or commands, counsels or procures another person, to commit an offence in terms of this chapter, is guilty of an offence.’

The charges follow a criminal case opened by Forensics for Justice's Paul O'Sullivan in the wake of the July 2021 riots.

Ndhlela told News24 that Zuma-Sambudla, who is also an MP and serves as the chairperson of the Southern Caucus of the Pan-African Parliament, is in high spirits.

‘She is a law-abiding citizen, and that is why she is presenting herself. If she was evading the law, she would not present herself to court. The fact that she is presenting herself means that she is a law-abiding citizen; she represents the law, and she will present herself,’ he said.

Large swathes of KZN were plagued by groups who strategically blocked roads with tyres and set them alight. As this was happening, Zuma-Sambudla posted a barrage of inflammatory tweets.

During testimony at the SA Human Rights Commission's investigation into the unrest, Jean le Roux of the Digital Forensic Research Lab said Zuma-Sambudla had engaged in the most celebratory posts during the unrest.

News24 reports that Le Roux testified: ‘(Hers) was one of the accounts that was most engaging in the celebratory parts of unrest. She did this quite prolifically throughout the period of 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 (against) his incarceration’.

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