Former South African president is freed after brief return to prison
approved by his successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa. He had arrived at a prison in KwaZulu-Natal province at about 6 a.m., was swiftly processed and freed just over an hour later.
South Africa’s prisons, which hold more than 212,000 inmates, are operating at 143 per cent of their capacity, according to the Correctional Services department in its announcement of the remission plan. “This poses a direct threat to inmate health, security and management, and it could lead to a surge in gangsterism,” the department said.
The DA said it is seeking legal avenues to challenge the government’s decision. But constitutional experts said a challenge is unlikely to succeed because South African law gives the president wide discretion in remitting jail sentences. Mr. Zuma’s faction of the ANC has continued to oppose Mr. Ramaphosa’s leadership, but the party is keen to keep him inside the party in the lead-up to next year’s elections, where the party will face a tough battle to retain its majority in parliament.
Some legal experts, however, supported the decision to free Mr. Zuma. “Nothing more could be gained through further incarceration,” said Thuli Madonsela, former head of an anti-corruption watchdog agency who had led the key investigations into the Zuma corruption case.
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