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South Africans barred from distributing pictures of Zuma's homestead
21 Nov 2013 at 11:38hrs | Views
Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead. (Madelene Cronje, M&G)
Pretoria - South African ministers in the security cluster say the publication and distribution of images of President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead are illegal as it is a national key point.
The ministers said South Africans should desist from publishing and distributing images of Zuma's Nkandla home.
"It is against the law. We are asking nicely that people no longer do it," said State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele during a media briefing on Thursday.
The briefing was to discuss Cabinet's meeting on Wednesday. The ministers in the security cluster were in attendance to address the Nkandla issue.
Cwele and Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa made it clear that it is against the law to take photographs and distribute photographs of national key points.
Mthethwa said that the Nkandla homestead had been declared a national key point in 2008 and this means people what have photos or images may be in possession of classified information.
The cluster ministers said that media houses will be contacted and asked to no longer publish pictures of Nkandla.
Source - finance24
