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Monday,5 July 2021 (YJC) _Zuma tells supporters outside his homestead he will appeal against a 15-month prison sentence and lashes out at judges.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has told hundreds of his supporters he is appealing a 15-month prison sentence and lashed out at the judges who issued the ruling, comparing them with the white minority apartheid rulers he once fought.
South Africa’s top court, the Constitutional Court, last week sentenced Zuma to prison for defying a court order that he should testify before a commission investigating allegations of rampant corruption when he was president from 2009 to 2018.
Several witnesses, including former Cabinet ministers and top executives of state-owned corporations, have testified of Zuma’s wrongdoing, including allowing his associates, the Gupta family, to influence his Cabinet appointments and lucrative state contracts.
A deadline for Zuma to turn himself in to authorities was set for midnight on Sunday (22:00 GMT). The court later agreed to hear his challenge to the 15-month sentence.
Zuma spoke at his home in Nkandla, in a rural part of KwaZulu-Natal province, where hundreds of his supporters, some of them armed, were gathered to prevent his arrest.
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