Zulu: I asked the police to stop spraying people with water

Zulu appeared before parliament’s portfolio committee on Social Development on Wednesday to answer questions regarding the lapsing of the temporary disability grant.

“This Lindiwe Zulu can never run away from the people, that one must be understood once and for all. I dealt with the people, I then went up to the offices to have a meeting.

"It was only when I was inside the offices of SASSA I realised that the police were spraying, I this very Lindiwe Zulu asked the police to stop what they were doing because I didn’t think that it was a good thing for them to do.

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“I am clarifying publicly that this Lindiwe Zulu can never, ever ask the police to spray the people worst of all, people with vulnerabilities who are on wheelchairs who are with children. I can never be found in a space like that,"

Last week Zulu also came under fire for addressing grant recipients through loud hailers inside a police nyala.

She further defended her actions.

“I only got onto the cassper simply because we did not have a loud hailer. The department will tell you, the CEO will tell you that I have been pleading with them to say let’s go and get loud hailers. I said that last year.

"Secondly I said let’s use the capacity of Sassa in terms of the vans. So I only went there because I wanted to use the communication of the police, it is not because I was running away from the people.”