Zuma is due to appear in the Pietermaritzburg high court on Tuesday on charges of corruption related to the arms deal
It remains to be seen whether former President Jacob Zuma will attend his arms deal corruption trial scheduled to be heard at the Pietermaritzburg high court on Tuesday as he is still in hospital.
Zuma, who was sentenced last month to a 15-month jail term for contempt of court, has been medically supervised by staff from the SA Military Health Services since his admission at the Estcourt Correctional Centre last month. Zuma’s brother Khanya told TimesLIVE this week that the family was not overly worried about Zuma being hospitalised “as he had “been unwell since he was poisoned” in 2014.
This is the second time that Zuma has temporarily been released from the prison since he began serving his sentence on July 8. Three weeks ago, he joined his family for the funeral of his brother Michael, in Nkandla, after he was granted compassionate leave. TimesLIVE reported this week that Carl Niehaus, a senior member of the #FreeJacobZuma campaign and of the so-called Radical Economic Transformation forces would be “embarking on several key programmes of action” after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s failure to act on the demands to release Zuma.
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