FORMER President Jacob Zuma is expected to mount a fierce legal battle on Tuesday to avoid prison after the Constitutional Court ordered his imprisonment for 15 months on contempt charges after he defied an order to appear before the State Capture Commission.
Zuma launched a new legal fight on Friday, asking the Pietermaritzburg High Court to interdict Minister of Police Bheki Cele and the police from arresting him until the Concourt has heard his fresh application.
At a media briefing, Zuma lashed out the judges and raised concerns about his imprisonment, adding that South Africa was ‘fast sliding back to apartheid rule’.
The political implications of the court case are likely to weigh heavily on the Pietermaritzburg High Court after Zuma launched another blistering attack on the judges, saying political motivations were the driving force behind his impending arrest.
The decision followed the former president’s defiance of an order
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