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Five minutes before an elite team of highly-trained special forces was to storm former president Jacob Zuma's Nkandla compound to arrest him on the night of 7 July, Dudu Myeni made a frantic call to national police commissioner Khehla Sitole, informing him that the former statesman had decided to surrender himself to the police.
News24 can reveal that, on the night of 7 July, while the country was on tenterhooks waiting to see if Zuma would submit himself to prison officials to begin his 15-month jail term, inside the Nkandla compound tough and marathon negotiations were under way between senior police officials and the former statesman and his team.
