‘Never before has the judicial process been so threatened’: Constitutional Court’s scathing Zuma judgment

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“Never before has the judicial process been so threatened,” said acting deputy chief justice Sisi Khampepe when ordering former president Jacob Zuma was in contempt of court and sentencing him to 15 months direct imprisonment.

“His attempts to evoke public sympathy through unfounded allegations fly in the face of reason and are an insult to the constitutional dispensation for which many women and men fought and lost their lives,” she said.

His attempts to evoke public sympathy through unfounded allegations fly in the face of reason and are an insult to the constitutional dispensation for which many women and men fought and lost their lives“The Constitutional Court went to great lengths to safeguard Mr Zuma’s rights. Consequently there is simply no sound nor logical basis on which Mr Zuma can claim to have been treated unfairly,” she said.

 

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