JUST IN: Zuma has arrived at the Escourt Correctional Centre in KZN
The convoy of cars leaving the Nkandla homestead at high speed before midnight has just arrived at the Escourt correctional facility.
That is it! Former president Jacob Zuma has finally arrived at the Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal.
CONVOY OF CARS HAS JUST PULLED IN
The convoy of cars leaving the Nkandla homestead at high speed before midnight has just arrived at the correctional centre.
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) confirmed that Zuma has been admitted to start serving a 15 months sentence at Estcourt Correctional Centre, KwaZulu-Natal.
As global COVID-19 deaths top 4 million, a suicide in Peru
AREQUIPA, Peru (AP) â On the last day of Javier Vilca s life, his wife stood outside a hospital window with a teddy bear, red balloons and a box of chocolates to celebrate his birthday, and held up a giant, hand-scrawled sign that read: âDon t give up. You re the best man in the world.â
Minutes later, Vilca, a 43-year-old struggling radio journalist who had battled depression, jumped four stories to his death â the fifth suicide by a COVID-19 patient at Peru s overwhelmed Honorio Delgado hospital since the pandemic began.
Vilca became yet another symbol of the despair caused by the coronavirus and the stark and seemingly growing inequities exposed by COVID-19 on its way to a worldwide death toll of 4 million, a milestone recorded Wednesday by Johns Hopkins University.
Former president Jacob Zuma gestures as he addresses the press at his home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Natal Province, Sunday, July 4, 2021. Zuma told hundreds of supporters gathered outside his rural estate that he is appealing his 15-month prison sentence and impending arrest by police. South Africa’s top court, the Constitutional Court, last week sentenced Zuma to prison for defying a court order that he should testify before a commission investigating allegations of rampant corruption when he was president from 2009 to 2018. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed)
NKANDLA, South Africa (AP) – Former South African president Jacob Zuma left his home late Wednesday night to turn himself in to authorities to serve a 15-month prison term, his foundation has confirmed.
South Africa s ex-President Jacob Zuma hands himself over to police
The 79-year-old anti-apartheid veteran turned himself in to officers on Thursday in line with a court ruling that says he must serve 15 months in prison for contempt of court.
Supporters of the ex-president had been trying to prevent his arrest
Former South African president Jacob Zuma was in police custody on Thursday after handing himself over to authorities to begin a 15-month prison term.
The veteran leader had faced a midnight deadline for officers to arrest him after judges ruled he should go to jail for contempt of court.
The country s highest court handed Zuma the prison term after he ignored a judicial ruling ordering him to appear before a commission investigating alleged corruption during his time in office from 2009 to 2018.
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In the latest news in South Africa on Thursday 8 July 2021, Jacob Zuma has finally handed himself over to authorities to begin his 15-month prison sentence.
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Former President Jacob Zuma has resolved to hand himself over to authorities on Wednesday 9 July, having left Nkandla in a motorcade late on Wednesday night, minutes before he was about to be arrested by police
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