Former South African president Jacob Zuma speaks to supporters who gathered at his home, as South African court agreed to hear his challenge to a 15-month jail term for failing to attend a corruption hearing, in Nkandla, South Africa, on Jul 4, 2021. NKANDIA, South Africa: South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma, ordered to surrender himself to start a 15-month jail term for contempt, on said Sunday he would not be doing so by the court-set deadline.
The former president, 79, earlier told supporters his"constitutional rights were abused" by judges of the country's constitutional court. After sentencing Zuma, the South African court nonetheless agreed to hear his challenge to rescind the order.In a show of force, loyalists clad in their African National Congress regalia have been outside their embattled leader's Nkandla homestead in Kwa-Zulu Natal province for weeks."When I saw the police here I wondered how will they get to me, how will they get through all these people," Zuma said earlier as he continued to mock South African authorities.
"We are here to say Ramaphosa must step down. Must step down", a visibly angry loyalist said."As from Monday we will make the country ungovernable."
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