POLICE Minister Bheki Cele has refused to arrest former president Jacob Zuma, who has been handed a 15-month jail term for contempt, until he has fully exhausted his legal challenges against the sentence, a document written by the State Attorney showed Tuesday.
Zuma was told to turn himself in by midnight on Sunday, failing which police would be instructed to arrest him within the following three days.
Zuma was order to be jailed for disobeying a court order to appear before the State Capture Inquiry currently investigating massive state corruption during his nine-year term in office.
The police minister and the national commissioner Khehla Sitole have written to the Constitutional Court, saying they will not enact the order pending the outcome of legal challenges to the Constitutional Court’s ruling of a 15-month sentence for Zuma, unless the court directs them otherwise.
The letter, authored by a state attorney representing police
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