Johannesburg – Former South African president, Jacob Zuma, will today continue his fight to avoid serving time in prison.
The Pietermaritzburg high court will virtually hear Zuma’s application for a rescission of the Constitutional Court’s (ConCourt) ruling at 11.30am.
Zuma has applied to the court for a stay of execution.
The ConCourt sentenced Zuma to 15 months in prison last week after it found the former president guilty of being in contempt of court after he repeatedly refused to appear at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state capture.
Zuma lashed out on Sunday at the judges who this week gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry, comparing them to the white minority apartheid rulers he once fought.
Zuma spoke at his home in Nklandla, in a rural part of Kwazulu Natal province, where hundreds of his supporters, some of them armed, were gathered to prevent his arrest.
“The fact that I was lambasted with a punitive jail sentence without trial should engender shock in all those who believe in freedom and the rule of law,” Zuma told journalists.
“South Africa is fast sliding back to apartheid rule,” Zuma further said.
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