Jacob Zuma becomes SA s first democratic president to be arrested Jacob Zuma is also the first president of South Africa ever to be jailed. The crowd who gathered to support former President Jacob Zuma is seen reflected in his glasses as he waits to speak after appearing on corruption charges at the Durban High Court on 6 April 2018. Picture: Ihsaan Haffejee/Eyewitness News.
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DURBAN - It s taken months of legal wrangling and some bold threats - but former President Jacob Zuma is finally behind bars. He is now a resident of the Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal.
After a number of dramatic days leading up to his imprisonment, Zuma s speeding convoy left his Nkandla homestead before the midnight deadline set by the Constitutional Court. He is the first president of democratic South Africa to be arrested, and the first president of South Africa ever to be jailed.