Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla to appear in court for alleged role in July 2021 riots

The MK party has asked its members to show support when their leader’s daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, appears in the Durban magistrate’s court on Thursday in connection with the July 2021 riots. 

In a post on X on Tuesday, the party invited members to “mobilise all ground forces to attend in numbers”.

In February last year, the SA Human Rights Commission report into the July 2021 civil unrest was released. According to the commission, the unrest affected 40,000 businesses and 50,000 informal traders, while 150,000 jobs were put at risk.

The financial damage of the unrest was estimated at R50-billion and 353 people died. 

It found no link between the deadly violence and former president Jacob Zuma’s incarceration and was unable to identify the “primary actors” responsible for devising and funding the unrest aimed at destabilising the political landscape and the economy.

A year after the riots, Zuma-Sambudla predicted her possible arrest after the Hawks’ investigation into the unrest. 

The Hawks, however, were indirectly investigating her for her alleged role in the unrest and looting.

At the time, Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Thandi Mbambo told TimesLIVE they were not directly investigating her but she had been named in statements from sources.

In response, she took to X and posted: “My name is Dudu Zuma. I am a daughter of a great man, the GOAT [greatest of all time] of politics Jacob Zuma. His blood runs through my veins. I have no fear. I will not be intimidated. I have beaten the dogs, now the masters are coming out. We see you,” she wrote. 

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