Chicco Twala was arrested on charges of common assault after he allegedly pulled what looked like a rifle and pointed it at the City Power employees.
This happened on Sunday night outside his recording studios in Johannesburg. The technician was fixing an electrical fault that had caused six houses in the neighbourhood to blackout.
Twala claims that he thought the technicians were cable thieves and that he was holding a toy gun.
The technicians fled and went in to report the matter at the Douglasdale police station.
The musician appeared at the Randburg Magistrate Court on Tuesday, and he was released on R2000 bail.
The public called his arrest into question after he made comments that being incarcerated means that he is not above the law, and he allegedly went on to say his haters must celebrate.
In a statement released, he said that for him, his arrest is a victory for all the people who have portrayed him as being a mafia that is behind the Senzo Meyiwa killing.
The musician continued to say that his haters on social media have accused him of bribing judges and police officials, including Bheki Cele, whom he says he has never even met.
Twala misspelt the Minister’s name, causing Bheki Cele to trend on social media. Some users feel that he purposely misspelt Cele’s name to prove he doesn’t know him.
Chicco was Longwe Twala’s father at Kelly Khumalo’s house when football star Senzo Meyiwa was murdered in 2014.
The legendary musician was thrust into the spotlight after news that Kelly Khumalo called him after the shooting of Senzo Meyiwa.
Social media has called the arrest of Chicco a publicity stunt; some have accused him of orchestrating it to move attention away from the Meyiwa court case. The case was already surrounded by drama as the defence attorney advocate Malesela Teffo was arrested in court late in April.
Twala is expected to appear in the Randburg Magistrate court in August of 2022.