{"id":62146,"date":"2023-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailysouthafrica.com\/?guid=40d40ce7ee72532767561998e0c41f68"},"modified":"2023-07-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T00:00:00","slug":"sas-jacob-zuma-seeking-medical-treatment-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysouthafrica.com\/sas-jacob-zuma-seeking-medical-treatment-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"SA’s Jacob Zuma seeking medical treatment in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma is in Russia’s capital, Moscow, for “health reasons”, his foundation has said.<\/P>
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“He will be returning to [South Africa] once his doctors have completed their treatment,” a statement from the Jacob G Zuma foundation continued.<\/P>
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The news comes a day after Zuma, 81, lost a case at the Constitutional Court, where he had tried to overturn a ruling that he must return to prison.<\/P>
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The former president left for Russia last week on a commercial flight, the foundation’s spokesman Mzwanele Manyi said.<\/P>
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He has gone to Russia before for treatment, including in 2014 after he was allegedly poisoned.<\/P>
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On Thursday, the Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma had been granted medical parole unlawfully.<\/P>
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He was given parole by the former head of the prison service, Arthur Fraser, who is regarded as an ally of the former president.<\/P>
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Zuma was released in September 2021 after serving less than eight weeks of a 15-month jail sentence.<\/P>
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He had been convicted of contempt, after refusing to co-operate with anti-corruption enquiry during his term in office.<\/P>
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The prisons department has said it is studying the constitutional court\u2019s judgement and will comment after seeking legal advice.<\/P>
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The main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has welcomed the court’s ruling, saying that it confirms that Zuma “belongs in jail”.<\/P>
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Source: BBC<\/P>
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