Baawaa:
Home sweet home

HONESTFACT101:
^{By now he will be wishing he built a better prison......signing out✈}

dawnomike:
If only this could happen in this present day Nigeria...

TMKsouth:
[s]Zuma likely to get ‘special treatment’ in jail, say prison and legal experts

One hundred and forty-four days (144) in jail. That’s the minimum the 79- year old former president Jacob Zuma can serve of his 15-month sentence before being considered for release on parole.

And while conditions in SA prisons are generally considered bad, legal and correctional services experts say he will undoubtedly be given “special treatment”, given his age, his high profile and any possible health issues he may have.

Zuma has no legal options left to avoid going to prison, barring a speedy presidential pardon, says Prof Lukas Muntingh of the University of Western Cape’s Dullah Omar Institute.

High-profile offenders

He said correctional services had a policy to deal with high-risk and high-profile offenders to protect them.

“My guess is they will detain him [Zuma] in a hospital cell or in a hospital section. He is not a young man anymore. He may or may not have health issues. And he has to be protected against Covid-19 infection.

“The department has a general obligation to ensure safe custody. If something were to happen to him it would be a very difficult situation to explain.”

Muntingh said because Zuma received a sentence of less than 24 months, he would be entitled to parole after serving a quarter of his sentence. That would be in October this year.

“I would think the department would want to get rid of him quickly,” he said.

Age and status

Criminal advocate Paul Jorgensen described the Constitutional Court’s ruling as “bold”.

“When determining which centre to send him to, officials would have to consider his age, the crime he has been convicted of and the fact that he is the former president who might not be safe mingling with the other inmates.

“He will definitely be treated more respectfully. And will most certainly get a bed to sleep on.”[/s]

TMKsouth:
[s]Former South African president Jacob Zuma is likely to be treated like royalty should he serve his sentence at the Nkandla prison, which is based in his rural home village of Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal.

He is due to start serving his 15-month sentence on Sunday, after the highest court in the country found him guilty of contempt of court for repeatedly failing to appear at a corruption inquiry investigating deep-seated rot during his years as president of South Africa.

Zuma’s daughter Dudu Zuma-Sambundla has already indicated her father would surrender himself at the Nkandla Police Station, making it likely that the former president could serve his prison term in the impoverished village.

It is evident from the pictures of the correctional centre that this will be a big fall from grace for Mr Zuma, who just a few years ago was South Africa's most powerful man and a well-pampered leader of the nation.[/s]

TMKsouth:


Meanwhile... his own home in the same village:

TMKsouth:
[s]There's a madman on this thread - hope y'all can tell who it is . I'll leave him with this poignant quote by Nelson Mandela [/s]