South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has handed himself in to police to begin serving a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court.

He was admitted to Estcourt Correctional Centre in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday.

Police had warned that they were prepared to arrest him if he did not hand himself in by midnight.

Zuma, 79, was handed the jail term last week after he failed to attend a corruption inquiry.

The sentencing sparked an unprecedented legal drama in South Africa.

Zuma refused to hand himself in on Sunday and a deadline was imposed of midnight on Wednesday (22:00 GMT) for his arrest.

In a short statement, the Jacob Zuma Foundation said the former president had "decided to comply with the incarceration order" and hand himself in to prison authorities.

His daughter, Dudu Zuma-Sambudla, later wrote on Twitter that her father was "en route [to the jail] and he is still in high spirits".


South Africa has never seen a former president jailed before.

Zuma was sentenced on 29 June for defying an instruction to give evidence at an inquiry into corruption during his nine years in power.

Businessmen have been accused of conspiring with politicians to influence the decision-making process while he was in office. But Zuma has repeatedly said that he is the victim of a political conspiracy.

Though he was forced out of office by his own party in 2018, the African National Congress (ANC), he retains a loyal body of supporters, especially in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal.

The case would be revisited and Zuma won't go to any prison

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GOD...in Nigeria,when?

That female Judge strict pass Judge Judy

Zuma’s disrespect is one thing. In China, he’ll get the chair for his corruption.
There has to be accountability! And I pray Bubu will be alive to face his own music, to answer for those killed on his watch, simply because they want good enough, to answer for the judges intimidated in the dead of the night, to answer for DSS recklessness and disregard for the dignity of human lives. That is Bubu’s legacy and he and his cohort shall face the music, not merely in posterity.

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othermen:
Zuma’s disrespect is one thing. In China, he’ll get the chair for his corruption.
There has to be accountability! And I pray Bubu will be alive to face his own music, to answer for those killed on his watch, simply because they want good enough, to answer for the judges intimidated in the dead of the night, to answer for DSS recklessness and disregard for the dignity of human lives. That is Bubu’s legacy and he and his cohort shall face the music, not merely in posterity.

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