Move comes after high court sets aside former prisons boss Arthur Fraser’s decision to grant former president medical parole
Move comes after high court sets aside former prisons boss Arthur Fraser granting former president medical paroleFormer president Jacob Zuma has filed an application for leave to appeal a high court order sending him back to jail, his spokesperson has said.
According to the spokesperson of Zuma’s eponymous foundation, Mzwanele Manyi, Wednesday’s application was launched “on the grounds that the judgment is clearly wrong” and “there are strong prospects that a higher court will come to a totally different conclusion”. On Wednesday morning Matojane ruled that Fraser’s decision to grant Zuma medical parole three months ago was unlawful. He set it aside.
Zuma’s imprisonment in July, after defying the apex court order, was followed by wide-scale rioting and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. The insurrection led to more than 300 deaths, many of them murders, and about R50bn in economic losses. It was one of the major drivers of the rise in official unemployment to a rate of almost 35%.
Counsel for the prisons commissioner, as an official office bearer, defended Fraser’s decision when the high court heard oral arguments on November 23.
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