CHARLES MOLELE|
SCENES of high drama unfolded in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, when former president Jacob Zuma handed himself over to prison in what some media personalities dubbed ‘The Night of Long Lives’.
Although he was not handcuffed, Police Ministry’s spokesperson Lirandzu Themba confirmed that Zuma was indeed arrested, charged, briefed about his rights and then allocated a cell at the local state-of-the-art correctional centre in Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal, in compliance with the Constitutional Court judgment.
Zuma will begin his 15-month jail term proper on Thursday at the R387-million, state-of-the-art Estcourt correctional centre opened by government in 2019.
The prison consists of two units, with a capacity to accommodate 512 inmates.
It also has a hospital section, training centre, maintenance workshop, logistics and other support structures.
The dramatic arrest of Zuma, a former head of intelligence for the outlawed African National Congress (ANC) during apartheid, took place against a backdrop of a
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