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Former South African president Jacob Zuma turned himself over to police early Thursday to begin serving a 15-month prison term. Just minutes before the midnight deadline for police to arrest him, Zuma left his Nkandla home in a convoy of vehicles. Zuma decided to hand himself over to authorities to obey the order from the country s highest court, the Constitutional Court, that he should serve a prison term for contempt of court. President Zuma has decided to comply with the incarceration order. He is on his way to hand himself into a Correctional Services Facility in KZN (KwaZulu-Natal province), said a tweet posted by the Zuma Foundation.
NKANDLA, South Africa
Former South African President Jacob Zuma turned himself over to police early Thursday to begin serving a 15-month prison term.
Just minutes before the midnight deadline for police to arrest him, Zuma left his Nkandla home in a convoy of vehicles. Zuma decided to hand himself over to authorities to obey the order from the country’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, that he should serve a prison term for contempt of court.
“President Zuma has decided to comply with the incarceration order. He is on his way to hand himself into a Correctional Services Facility in KZN [KwaZulu-Natal province],” said a tweet posted by the Zuma Foundation.
Former South African president Jacob Zuma turned himself in late Wednesday to begin serving a 15-month prison term.
In a historic ruling, 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.
Police had earlier on Wednesday warned they were prepared to arrest the former president by a midnight deadline to enforce the court ruling, unless the top court instructed otherwise.
But minutes before the deadline, Zuma, 79, left his Nklandla home in a convoy of vehicles to an unnamed jail in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN).