Nkandla situation 'troubling': Buthelezi
Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi believes Jacob Zuma has been misled by his lawyers to the point the former president has been left to face several consequences.
Buthelezi, who is the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) founder and prime minister to the AmaZulu nation, was speaking in his personal capacity on Monday on the developments around Zuma and at his Nkandla homestead.
Scores of Zuma's supporters in Nkandla with some vowing the former president won't go to jail as his deadline to hand himself over loomed.
There have been concerns of violence possibly breaking out, while Police Minister Bheki Cele saying over 100 people in the Nkandla crowd were armed.
READ: Cele says police stepped back at Nkandla to avoid bloodbath
At a briefing at his Ulundi office, Buthelezi said Zuma wasn't the first leader to face imprisonment.
"1964, during our own lifetime, when we were deprived of the cream of our liberation leaders Nelson Mandela, Govan Bheki, Sisulu and other stalwarts of the Rivonia Trial we did not contemplate any physical revolt. We loved them too. With all of this history, I and very troubled by what is happening at Nkandla."
Zuma has bought himself some time after filing two court applications over his possible arrest and the 15-month sentence he was handed for ignoring a Constitutional Court order to testify at the commission of inquiry into state capture.
The applications will be heard on Tuesday and next week Monday.
