{"id":155844,"date":"2021-12-16T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T01:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=155844"},"modified":"2021-12-16T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T01:43:23","slug":"south-african-court-orders-ex-president-zuma-back-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=155844","title":{"rendered":"South African court orders ex-president Zuma back to jail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2021\/12\/15\/image-33839-1639573769.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 JOHANNESBURG, Dec 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A South African court ordered former president Jacob Zuma to return to prison, invalidating the\u00a0medical parole he was granted in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0The decision to place Zuma on medical parole is &#8220;declared unlawful and set\u00a0aside&#8221;, read the ruling by High Court Judge Elias Matojane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Zuma, 79, was jailed in July for 15 months for contempt of court, after he\u00a0refused to give testimony to corruption investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0His jailing sparked violent protests and looting in his home province of\u00a0KwaZulu-Natal that spread to the financial hub Johannesburg in July, claiming\u00a0over 350 lives. That was the deadliest violence in South Africa since the end\u00a0of white-minority rule in 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Current President Cyril Ramaphosa has described the unrest as an\u00a0orchestrated attempt to destabilise the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Zuma was granted medical parole on Sept 5, but the exact reasons were\u00a0never revealed. While in prison, he was taken to hospital for surgery to\u00a0 treat an undisclosed ailment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Zuma can appeal the decision. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 JOHANNESBURG, Dec 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A South African court ordered former president Jacob Zuma to return to prison, invalidating the\u00a0medical parole he was granted in September. \u00a0 \u00a0The decision to place Zuma on medical parole is &#8220;declared unlawful and set\u00a0aside&#8221;, read the ruling by High Court Judge Elias Matojane. \u00a0 \u00a0Zuma, 79, was jailed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":155846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}