South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma gets 15 months in prison for contempt of court

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This is so funny can you imagine this happening in US (well maybe to a black President) or Nigeria NEVER haha this South Africans do try their luck though..... Please share your thoughts in the comments section... feel free to run wild....

South Africa's apex court has ordered Zuma, who was not present in court for the ruling, to hand himself over within five days to a police station in his hometown, or in Johannesburg.


South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been convicted of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months in prison, news agencies reported on Tuesday. The 79-year-old South African leader was found guilty of defying a court order to appear at a corruption inquiry earlier this year.


Zuma was facing an inquiry probing wide-ranging allegations of corruption during his tenure from 2009 to 2018. The Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma defied an order by the country’s highest court by refusing to cooperate with the commission of inquiry, chaired by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo.


"Mr Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is sentenced to undergo 15 months' imprisonment," a constitutional court judge said, reading out the court's order.

South Africa's apex court has ordered Zuma, who was not present in court for the ruling, to hand himself over within five days to a police station in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal province, his hometown, or in Johannesburg.

For the first time in South African history, a former president has been sentenced to a prison term.


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