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William Saunderson-Meyer Zuma has behaved as he does because he – and many other party cadres who show contempt for rule of law – have a powerful enabler: the ANC. Former President Jacob Zuma addresses his supporters outside his house on 4 July 2021 in Nkandla. Picture: Gallo Images/Mlungisi Louw Jailing Jacob is a good start to ending the moral rot in our body politic. But we are in danger of drawing the wrong lessons from his dramatic minute-to-midnight jailing for contempt of court. It is not the victory for law and order and constitutional democracy that it is being portrayed as. Zuma has behaved as he does because he – and the many other ANC cadres who daily and with impunity show their contempt of the rule of law – have a powerful enabler. That enabler is the ANC. The ANC’s failure to understand full
Supporters of former president Jacob Zuma outside his Nkandla homestead on Friday, 2 July 2021, in KwaZulu-Natal. (Photo: Leila Dougan)
The former president on Friday filed urgent applications in the Constitutional Court and Pietermaritzburg High Court, seeking that the latter issue a stay of his arrest pending the outcome of the appeal to the apex court to reconsider and rescind the judgment in which he was found in contempt and sentenced to 15 months’ direct imprisonment.
Zuma has also distanced himself from statements released by his eponymous foundation in which attacks have been made against the judiciary, including a misogynistic swipe at Justice Sisi Khampepe.
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