Convicted Fees-Must-Fall activist, Kanya Cekeshe, says he has no regrets. He was part of a group of people that President Cyril Ramaphosa granted a remission of sentence in December in 2020.
Cekeshe was convicted of public violence and malicious damage to property when he tried to set a police van alight during university protests in 2016.
Eight weeks after being let out on parole, the episode has sparked his interest in legal matter and he’s now studying law. Cekeshe explains why he has no regrets.
“You don’t get into such a movement, with such ideologies at the forefront, with such a profound meaning, only for you to have regrets afterwards because then that would mean that you, yourself as a person, are literally questioning the very core values that you actually stand up for, and so, no I do not have any regrets,” says Cekeshe.
In other news – President Ramaphosa elects Tunzi as an ambassador for gender-based violence
President Cyril Ramaphosa has elected reigning Miss Universe Zozibini Tunzi to be an ambassador for gender-based violence on the African continent as he takes the African Union chairship.
Arts and Culture Deputy Minister Nocawe Mafu announced the news during Tunzi’s home-coming celebrations at a stadium in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. Meanwhile, Mafu encouraged young people to pursue their dreams. Read more
Source: IOL