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South Africa: Top court upholds ex-president’s jail sentence

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By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME
Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s highest court has denied an application by former president Jacob Zuma to rescind his sentence of 15 months in jail for contempt of court. The Constitutional Court judgment upheld its earlier ruling that Zuma should go to prison for refusing to testify at a commission of inquiry into widespread corruption in government and at state-owned companies while he was president of South Africa from 2009-2018. Zuma was jailed in July but has since been granted medical parole for an undisclosed illness. Friday’s judgment was read out by Justice Sisi Khampepe at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. She said it was a 7-2 majority decision. The ruling doesn’t affect Zuma’s parole.

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