Former South African President Jacob Zuma begins jail time period after handing himself over to police
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The transfer ended days of intense hypothesis over whether or not the police and former President would adjust to the nation’s Constitutional Court docket for Zuma’s arrest and imprisonment.
Simply earlier than the clock wound down on the midnight deadline, Zuma was admitted to the Estcourt Correctional Middle close to his dwelling in KwaZulu-Natal province, in keeping with the Division of Correctional Companies.
“Former President of South Africa, Mr. Jacob Zuma was on the July 7, 2021, positioned within the custody of the South African Police Service, in compliance with the Constitutional Court docket judgment,” mentioned Police Ministry spokesperson Lirandzu Themba mentioned in a press release.
The order stemmed from Zuma’s refusal to seem at an anti-corruption fee to reply questions on his alleged involvement in corruption throughout his time as president.
His incarceration, nonetheless, might be quick lived.
On Friday, a Excessive Court docket decide will rule whether or not police ought to have waited to convey him in till after a Constitutional Court docket listening to, attributable to happen on July 12, the place his attorneys will argue mitigating circumstances in his sentence.