South African court rejects former South African Pres. Jacob Zuma's request to postpone his current jail term.
The Estcourt Correctional Centre prison in the KwaZulu Natal province Thursday July, 8, 2021 where former South African President Jacob Zuma is to serve a fifteen month prison sentence for contempt of court. The 79-year-old Zuma was convicted of contempt for defying a court order to testify at a judicial commission investigating allegations of corruption during his presidency from 2009 to 2018.
Zuma has one more legal bid to be released which will be heard by the Constitutional Court, the country's apex court, on Monday. Some of Zuma's supporters in KwaZulu-Natal protested his imprisonment on Friday by blocking some roads in the province.
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