But how long he stays there is not a matter for the courts to decide By FRANNY RABKIN Former president Jacob Zuma Image: Bloomberg The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application for leave to appeal about former president Jacob…
The Constitutional Court has denied a rescission application brought by former president Jacob Zuma on Friday September 17. Zuma had submitted the application in a bid to have the court’s earlier judgment, sentencing him to 15 months’…
Former president Jacob Zuma was taken to the Estcourt prison at about 1.30am and would go through admission processes, the correctional services department said Former president Jacob Zuma has officially been jailed. The correctional…
Former president Jacob Zuma has officially handed himself over and is in police custody. Both national SAPS spokesman Brig Vish Naidoo and police ministry spokeswoman Lirandzu Themba confirmed the news. Naidoo said: “I can confirm that…
An eight-vehicle motorcade pulled out of the Zuma family’s Nkandla homestead about 11.15pm on Wednesday night, but it was not immediately clear whether former president Jacob Zuma was in one of the vehicles. The vehicles left in the…
The former president’s lawyers say in a letter to the Constitutional Court that police had informed them that they would make an arrest on Wednesday. Former president Jacob Zuma made an eleventh-hour appeal on Wednesday night to stop his…
The Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) press briefing at the entrance of former president Jacob Zuma’s home degenerated into chaos and was stopped prematurely on July 2 2021 after supporters intimidated members of the…
All eyes will be on the police on Wednesday, with a Constitutional Court-imposed deadline to arrest former president Jacob Zuma by midnight still in place. On Tuesday, the former president made an urgent application to the high court to…
The Constitutional Court will on Monday, July 12, hear former president Jacob Zuma’s urgent application to rescind its order sentencing him to jail for 15 months for contempt of court. The ConCourt issued these directions on Saturday,…
Former president Jacob Zuma is guilty of contempt of court for failure to comply with an order of the Constitutional Court to honour a summons to appear before the state capture commission, the apex court found on Tuesday. Handing down…
On Wednesday, former president Jacob Zuma said he would not be filing an affidavit to the ConCourt – and in a 21-page letter to chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, he explained why. The directive from the Constitutional Court to former…
ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte told the party’s national officials she believes former president Jacob Zuma should not appear before deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo at the state capture inquiry he chairs. She told the…
The ANC leadership’s meeting with former president Jacob Zuma over his refusal to appear before the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture will go ahead “any day soon”. President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed on Friday that Zuma had…
Former president Jacob Zuma has made an undertaking to attend his criminal trial in May, the Pietermaritzburg high court heard on Tuesday. State advocate Billy Downer SC told the court that Zuma and a representative from French arms…
The state capture commission has welcomed a Constitutional Court ruling that former president Jacob Zuma must appear before the commission. On Thursday, the country’s apex court ordered Zuma to abide by a summons and appear to give…
