Johannesburg – Former President Jacob Zuma will tomorrow learn his fate in the contempt case, the Constitutional Court said in its official Twitter account on Monday.
The apex court said the judgment will be handed down at 10 am.
The state capture commission has asked the Constitutional Court for an urgent order declaring Zuma in contempt of court and sentencing him to two years in prison for defying summonses served to testify before the inquiry into state capture.
Zuma in a statement in February intimated that the judiciary was biased against him, following a ruling by the Constitutional Court that he should appear before the state capture inquiry and answer questions put to him.
The erstwhile head of state said he would not appear before Zondo, opening a door for a possible arrest.
“I am again prepared to go to prison to defend the Constitutional rights that I personally fought for and to serve whatever sentence that this democratically elected government deems appropriate as part of the special and different laws for Zuma agenda,” reads the statement.
Zuma in January ran out of legal avenues to duck answering questions at the Zondo Commission after the Constitutional Court today ruled that he must honor summonses issued by the Commission.
Zuma has stubbornly refused to appear before the Commission, where he has been implicated by more than 30 witnesses in the state capture project.
The highest court in the land has already ruled that Zuma did not have the right to remain silent in proceedings before the commission, potentially ending a long standoff between the erstwhile president and the Commission probing state capture.
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