The long-awaited judgment on Jacob Zuma’s rescission application, which was filed in July as a last-minute bid to avert the jailing of the former president, will be handed down on Friday morning.
JOHANNESBURG - The Jacob Zuma Foundation is hopeful the Constitutional Court will set aside the former president’s 15-month jail sentence.
Zuma’s legal team approached the apex court to have his 15-month prison term for contempt of court rescinded, arguing that the sentence was an infringement on his right to a fair trial. Among a host of reasons provided by Zuma’s legal team on the application is that he had been jailed without a trial.“So, we are hoping that they would have reflected on their judgment is a clear indication that they did not apply their minds, in terms of the International Covenant as it were, which is domesticated in South Africa. So we hope that the judgment will make sure that Constitution supremacy is affirmed,” said the Jacob Zuma Foundation’s Mzwanele Manyi.
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