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- South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma is on medical parole, according to the Department of Correctional Services. Zuma has been serving a jail term against a charge of contempt of court for failure to comply with an order of the Constitutional Court to appear before the state capture commission
- The parole was granted on the basis of a medical report received by the department
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma is on medical parole, according to the Department of Correctional Services. Zuma has been serving a jail term against a charge of contempt of court for failure to comply with an order of the Constitutional Court to appear before the state capture commission. The parole was granted on the basis of a medical report received by the department.
The department said in a statement that Zuma must comply with a specific set of conditions and would be subjected to supervision until his sentence expired. He was sentenced for 15 months in prison and had undergone weeks of incarceration at the medical wing of the Estcourt prison before he was moved to an external hospital.
The exact nature of Zuma’s ailment is still not made public. The prosecution argued that the disease for which he was being treated was a manufactured to circumvent the jail term. However, the former president had undergone a surgery recently for an undisclosed ailment, the details of that are still not in the public domain.
