South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that the decision to release former President Jacob Zuma on early medical parole was “unlawful” and ordered that the former president be returned to prison to finish his sentence for contempt of court. In 2021, Jacob Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in prison for ignoring court order to testify at an inquiry about the rampant corruption that existed during his nearly 10 year old tenure as South President.
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80 year old Jacob Zuma served as the fourth president of South Africa from 2009 to 2018. Zuma was imprisoned in Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal, for contempt of court. After testifying for less than three days at the Zondo Commission on state capture allegations, he refused to return, violating summons and a Constitutional Court order compelling his testimony. On 29 June 2021, the Constitutional Court sentenced him to fifteen months imprisonment. He was arrested on 7 July and released on medical parole two months later on 5 September. The high court rescinded his parole on 15 December, but was granted leave to appeal the ruling in the Supreme Court of Appeal. Zuma lost the appeal and has been ordered back to prison.
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