Zuma is also facing additional legal woes as he is standing trial to face charges related to bribes that he allegedly received during South Africa's 1999 arms procurement deal. Several have testified that while president Zuma allowed members of the controversial Gupta family to influence his appointment of Cabinet ministers and lucrative contracts at state-owned companies. Some former Cabinet ministers, high-ranking government officials and executives of state-owned enterprises are among witnesses who have implicated Zuma in corruption. In his letter which he released to the public, Zuma claimed that the commission chairman, Zondo, was biased against him and that evidence presented against him was politically motivated. In a previous 21-page letter written to Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, which the court has described as "scandalous," Zuma claimed that he was ready to be sent to prison.
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Print instantly, or sync to our free PC, web and mobile apps. Zuma has previously expressed his unwillingness to appear before the commission, which has so far heard evidence directly implicating Zuma in wrongdoing. Choose from Zuma sheet music for such popular songs as Cortez the Killer, Through My Sails, and Lookin for a Love. Zuma has repeatedly reiterated that he would rather be imprisoned than to cooperate with the commission or comply with the order made," said Khampepe.
She added that in determining the jail sentence for Zuma, the court found it impossible to conclude that he would comply with any other order. Zuma was served with the order and it is impossible to conclude anything other than that he was unequivocally aware of what it required of him," said acting chief justice Sisi Khampepe. "The Constitutional Court holds that there can be no doubt that Mr. The country's apex court, the Constitutional Court, ruled that Zuma defied an order by the country's highest court by refusing to cooperate with the commission of inquiry, which is chaired by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo. This is the first time in South Africa's history that a former president has been sentenced to prison. If Zuma fails to turn himself in within five days South Africa's minister of police and the police commissioner have been ordered to take him into custody within three days. Zuma was not in court for the ruling on Tuesday and has been ordered to hand himself over within five days to a police station in his hometown of Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal province or in Johannesburg. JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months in prison for defying a court order to appear before an inquiry probing wide-ranging allegations of corruption during his tenure from 2009 to 2018. Defying the country’s COVID-19 regulations against public gatherings, they grouped together, many without masks, and sang songs praising Zuma’s role in the fight against apartheid, South Africa's previous regime of white minority rule.Former South African President Jacob Zuma, shown here in 2019, has been found guilty of contempt of court.
Over the weekend, hundreds of Zuma's supporters had gathered outside his homestead in the rural area of Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal, vowing to prevent any attempts to arrest him. The judgment in the case will be delivered Friday. You should reject that,” said Ngcukaitobi. He has now approached you (the court) to assist him in breaking the law further. “We are dealing here with a repetitive, recalcitrant law-breaker in the form of Mr. Zuma should have already handed himself over to police, said Ngcukaitobi, representing the commission of inquiry. In an opposing argument, advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi said Zuma was already in defiance of the court order by not handing himself over to authorities. Zuma’s lawyer, Dali Mpofu, argued in court on Tuesday that police minister Bheki Cele had not opposed Zuma’s application and that nobody had argued that he was a flight risk or would evade arrest if his application failed. Zuma has been found guilty of contempt after failing to obey the court’s order to appear before the commission investigating allegations of corruption when he was president from 2009 to 2018. Zuma's lawyers argued that the court should stop the police from arresting him until the Constitutional Court rules on his application to rescind the sentence, which will be heard on July 12. The Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal province heard arguments Tuesday by Zuma's lawyer that the court should stop the order made last week by the Constitutional Court that police must arrest Zuma by midnight on Wednesday after he was sentenced last week to 15 months in prison for contempt of court. A South African regional court is to rule Friday on whether it will block an order by the country's highest court for the arrest of former South African President Jacob Zuma.