Former president Jacob Zuma is guilty of contempt of court for failure to comply with an order of the Constitutional Court to honour a summons to appear before the state capture commission, the apex court found on Tuesday.
Handing down the court's decision on behalf of the majority, justice Sisi Khampepe said it is the lofty and lonely work of the judiciary to uphold, protect and apply the constitution and the law at all costs. "The only appropriate sanction is a direct unsuspended order of imprisonment," Khampepe said.
The court was handing down judgment in the application by the commission of inquiry into state capture that Zuma be held in contempt of court for failing to comply with the court's earlier order in January to obey the commission's summons to appear and give evidence from February 15 to 19.After Zuma's failure to appear, the commission launched contempt proceedings in the Constitutional Court.
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