Johannesburg – As the sunset at the KwaNxamalala village in eNkandla, former President Jacob Zuma was still nowhere to be seen.
The only clue that his son Edward could provide was to give assurance that his father had not escaped the country.
“He has some important business to take care of, soon he’ll be back home where he belongs. The allegations that he has fled the country are unfounded, he has no reason to,” said Edward.
It however emerged that Zuma was expected back to his ancestral home later in the evening where a family meeting was to be held to deliberate on the implications of the Constitutional Court ruling and the next move for the former president.
It is believed that Zuma had been in Durban where he had been meeting his lawyers seeking their counsel.
Zuma was reduced to a convict by the ConCourt on Tuesday. Delivering the landmark judgment, presiding judge Sisi Khampepe handed down a 15-month direct imprisonment sentence to the former statesman.
Zuma was found guilty of contempt for failure to appear at the commission probing allegations of state capture chaired by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo.
Meanwhile, the MKMVA ex-soldiers who stood guard at Zuma’s homestead to provide human shields to their commander in chief managed to block a police van from entering the homestead.
It was not immediately clear what was the reason for police visitation to Zuma’s homestead.
A motorcade of Zuma supporters is also expected to converge at KwaDakwadunuse homestead on Thursday.
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