South African court orders ex-president to jail for contempt
Source: Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) South Africas former President Jacob Zuma has been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months in prison for defying a court order to appear before an inquiry probing wide-ranging allegations of corruption during his tenure from 2009 to 2018.
Zuma was not in court for the ruling on Tuesday and has been ordered to hand himself over within five days to a police station in his hometown of Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal province or in Johannesburg.
If Zuma fails to turn himself in within five days South Africas minister of police and the police commissioner have been ordered to take him into custody within three days.
This is the first time in South Africas history that a former president has been sentenced to prison.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/africa-south-africa-courts-ca4b08b93ab679ec2304da47625800bd
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