South Africa

Former South African President Jacob Zuma turned himself in to police early on Thursday to begin serving a 15-month sentence. Just minutes before the deadline for the police arrest at midnight, Zuma left his home in Nkandla in a convoy of vehicles. Zuma surrendered to authorities to obey the country's highest court, the Constitutional Court, that he would serve time in prison for contempt. "President Zuma has decided to comply with the prison order. He is about to enter a prison facility in KZN…

First night in jail for Jacob Zuma. The former South African president, sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt, handed over to police on the night of Wednesday, July 7. He had left his home in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal just before midnight and thus avoided police intervention. The urgent appeals brought by his legal team were not sufficient to reject the decision to arrest him issued by the…

Sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt for justice, the former South African president should finally not be arrested before at least July 12. The Constitutional Court will hear his appeal. Jacob Zuma had claimed that at the age of 79 and during a period of Covid-19, a stay in prison would amount to the death penalty. On Saturday in front of his home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, he made a brief…

After being sentenced this week to 15 months in prison for contempt for justice, former President Jacob Zumaa ​​appealed to the Constitutional Court on Friday night and asked it to overturn its decision. Earlier this week, he was convicted by the same court of refusing to testify before a commission of inquiry into corruption. and this despite a ban on justice.…

The former South African president was sentenced on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 to 15 months in prison for contempt. Since then, his foundation and supporters have questioned the Constitutional Court's ruling. The former head of state, charged in other corruption cases, has until Sunday to hand himself over to the police. Jacob…

On June 30, South Africa commemorates the official abolition thirty years ago of all the segregationist laws introduced by the racist regime when it came to power in 1948. The triumph of multi-party democracy is the result of the struggle of political activists but also of intellectuals and writers. Return with the author Ivan Vladislavic on the opposition of intellectuals to apartheid.…

The daily Addis Standardconfirms it: TDF, Tigray Defense Forces, took back the city of Mekelelundi, during the shouts of joy and the songs of the inhabitants. A little earlier, the Ethiopian newspaper details, the provincial administration of the province had seen its request for a ceasefire accepted by the federal government. A unilateral ceasefire, which is officially prescribed to allow farmers in the region to begin…

On June 30, 1991, the apartheid laws were abolished. A step towards the end of the regime that was definitely overthrown by the ballot box in April 1994. Among the younger generations, the story of the struggle against apartheid is blurred. From our correspondent in Johannesburg,"We were almost caught by the police there. One…

A South African court has handed over the nation's former president Jacob Zuma a 15-month prison sentence after finding him guilty of contempt of court for failing to face an inquiry that investigated extensive allegations of corruption during his time from 2009 to 2018. Zuma was not in court for the verdict on Tuesday and has been ordered to surrender within five days to a police station in his hometown of Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal province or in Johannesburg. It is the first time in the history of…

An unrivaled verdict in South Africa: former President Jacob Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt for justice. The long-awaited verdict from the Constitutional Court fell on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. Prosecuted in several cases of embezzlement and money laundering, this time Jacob Zuma was on trial for his refusal to participate in an anti-corruption commission.…