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I'm not going to jail, says Jacob Zuma

Jacob Zuma

Former South African president Jacob Zuma addresses the media in his home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal on July 4, 2021. 

Photo credit: Emmanuel Croset AFP

By  Chris Erasmus

Former South African president Jacob Zuma says that there is no longer a need for him to be sent to jail.

The reason is that the Constitutional Court, which on Tuesday last week sentenced him to a 15-month jail term for contempt, has agreed to hear his pleas.

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