The DA is, however, adamant that the former president is not above the law and should go back to prison
EFF and ANC KwaZulu-Natal believe former president Jacob Zuma should be left alone to play with his grandchildren despite an SCA judgement stating that his medical parole release was illegal. File photo.The EFF believes that sending former president Jacob Zuma back to jail will “serve no rehabilitation purpose”.
The DA and others took the matter to the Pretoria high court which ruled that Zuma must return to jail — a decision the former president appealed at the SCA where he has since lost. This, he said, because the incarceration of an inmate was done with a purpose to rehabilitate them and make them positive contributors to society upon release, something the EFF struggles to see can be achieved with a pensioner like Zuma.
According to ANC KZN provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo, “the fact that President Jacob Zuma is not required by law to return to prison”, is good for the stability of the province and the country. Said Mtolo: “As the ANC in KZN we affirm our position that the release of [former] president Zuma months ago marked an important chapter not only in KwaZulu-Natal but in South Africa and the entire continent of Africa.
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