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Zuma spends night in prison, the first of his next 450 days in jail
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma has spent his first night at the Escourt Correctional Services facility in KwaZulu-Natal. Police had warned they were prepared to arrest the 79-year-old if he did not hand himself in by midnight on Wednesday. The former President was given a 15-month jail term by the Constitutional Court last week for contempt of court, after…
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Jacob Zuma makes last-ditch appeal to Zondo to avoid imminent arrest
SOUTH Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma made an eleventh-hour appeal on Wednesday night to stop his impending arrest. Zuma, through his lawyers, Ntanga Nkuhlu Attorneys, wrote to acting chief justice Raymond Zondo asking him to issue a directive stopping the police from arresting him as the midnight deadline looms. The Jacob Zuma Foundation confirmed that lawyers had submitted the letter.…
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Zuma compares some South African judges to apartheid rulers (VIDEO)
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma addressed his supporters in Nkandla after the Constitutional Court on Tuesday found him guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months in prison. The court has agreed to hear Zuma’s application to have his jail sentence rescinded. Zuma on Sunday lashed out at the judges who gave him a 15-month jail…
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