DA leader John Steenhuisen will submit a Promotion of Access to Information (PAIA) application to establish what criteria the correctional services department used to determine former president Jacob Zuma’s eligibility for medical parole.
On Sunday Steenhuisen said he will also request that the justice and correctional services committee summon correctional services commissioner Arthur Fraser “to explain to parliament his decision to grant this medical parole in direct contravention of the Correctional Matters Amendment Act”.
Zuma started serving his sentence in July after he was found guilty of contempt of court for failure to comply with an order of the Constitutional Court to honour a summons to appear before the state capture inquiry. “Following the debacle around the granting of unlawful medical parole to Schabir Shaik in 2009, parliament’s portfolio committee on correctional services unanimously supported the amendment of section 79 of the Act to stipulate that ‘the Minister must establish a medical advisory board to provide an independent medical report to the national commissioner, correctional supervision and parole board or the minister, as the case may be, in addition to the medical report referred to in subsection .
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