A SOUTH African court on Tuesday granted former president Jacob Zuma leave to appeal against a ruling that he must to return to prison after being released in September on medical parole.
Zuma, 79, was sentenced in June to 15 months in prison for contempt of court after ignoring instructions to participate in a corruption inquiry.
He handed himself in to begin his sentence on July 7, triggering some of the worst violence South Africa had seen in years. Anger from supporters snowballed into broader outrage over hardship and inequalities that persist 27 years after the end of apartheid.
He began medical parole in September, but earlier this month South Africa’s high court ordered that decision void and that he should return to jail – raising concerns about further violence.
That same court ruled on Tuesday his legal team should be able to appeal against the judgment at a higher
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