Thabiso Scebi Nene appeared briefly at the Pretoria magistrate’s court on Tuesday after being arrested for allegedly circulating pornographic images with overlaid faces of the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and police minister Bheki Cele.

The 34-year-old is being charged with allegedly contravening the Cybercrimes Act.

The Cybercrimes Act’s section 16 stipulates that any person who unlawfully and intentionally discloses, by means of electronic communication, an intimate image of a person without their consent is guilty of an offence.

When he appeared in court on Tuesday, the state postponed the matter to May 30.

Police spokesperson Lt-Col Philani Nkwalase said an investigation into pornographic images of unknown individuals with superimposed faces of Ramaphosa, Cele and his wife had been launched at the beginning of May.

Police minister Bheki Cele and wife's faces were allegedly overlayed on pornographic images.

“The images were distributed to police officers and members of the public on social media platforms. A 34-year-old suspect was traced in Kwazulu-Natal (KZN) and arrested and his device that was allegedly used as well as sim cards were recovered in his possession,” Nkwalase said.

He said a multitude of pornographic images were allegedly found on his device.

The man was arrested by members of the Gauteng crimes against the state (CATS) team and the Hawks' Pietermaritzburg-based serious organised crime investigation team on Sunday.

Freedom of expression, isn't that a thing in SA (thought SA is the most liberal and most democratic state in Africa)??

I want to see the super imposed image of the porn president

Photos or adonbilivit

Can we see the superimposed porn photos?

Damn!

So where's the superimposing porn photos na? The only person normal in SA is lucky Dube. Unfortunately they killed him because of their foolishness in that country. Damn! Lucky Dube my real niggar

Somewhere in Nigeria, they would have begun by stating his tribe, ethnic background, then religion.

Then a section of the people would have said what he did was good because the leaders are bad...

This is South Africa which according to some statistics is enjoying better governmental and economic policies than we do, yet someone still found something to talk about their president...

Let us be guided by the truth that the grass is not always greener on the other side and even if your candidate or my candidate becomes the president, there will always be specks of dirt around them. There is no politician worth taking a bullet for or better there is no politician worth destroying a relationship for.

What an idiot...was he think that he would be allowed to get away with this sort of behaviour?

Abuse of comfort and knowledge of social media.

What did he even stand to gain in that nonsense?

He should be jailed to serve as a deterrent to others.

No political meaning should be read to this prosecution!

What's his purpose?

profit or fun?

Well, he can have both in jail