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Former president Jacob Zuma spent the first night of his 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court at the Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal.

This after he handed himself over to police on Wednesday evening, after a Constitutional Court order.

Zuma was handed the sentence by the ConCourt last week after he failed to appear at the state capture inquiry.In a statement, the Jacob Zuma Foundation said the former president had “decided to comply with the incarceration order” and hand himself over. His daughter, Duduzile, said her father was in “high spirits” when he left his Nkandla homestead to hand himself over.

“He said that he hopes they still have his same overalls from Robben Island and we laughed hard that at least he won’t struggle with Afrikaans this time round,” she wrote on Twitter. Zuma did not hand himself over on Sunday as ordered to, so midnight on Wednesday was the deadline for the police to make sure the arrest warrant was executed.“The police ministry can confirm that former president Jacob Zuma was placed in custody in compliance with the ConCourt judgment,”

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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