BREAKING | The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application for leave to appeal about former president Jacob Zuma’s medical parole, saying an appeal had “no reasonable prospects of success”.
The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application for leave to appeal about former president Jacob Zuma’s medical parole, saying an appeal had “no reasonable prospects of success”.This means the November judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal stands. In that judgment, the SCA court said:
“Mr Zuma, in law, has not finished serving his sentence. He must return to the Estcourt Correctional Centre to do so.”But how long he stays there was not a matter for the courts to decide, said the SCA judgment. This was “a matter to be considered by the commissioner” of correctional services. “If he is empowered in law to do so, the commissioner might take [the period already spent on medical parole] into account in determining any application or grounds for release,” said SCA Justice Tati Makgoka.The former president was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment by the Constitutional Court for contempt after he breached its order to obey the summons of the state capture commission.
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