Five extracts from Justice Khampepe’s judgment that nailed Zuma to 15 month jail sentence

Zuma has been given five days to present himself to the Nkandla or Johannesburg Central police stations to start serving his jail term failing which the police must ensure that he begins imprisonment within three days afterwards.

1. At its core, this matter is about an egregious threat posed to the authority of the Constitution, the integrity of the judicial process, and the dignity of this court. If these circumstances do not warrant “swift and effective judicial intervention”, then I do not know what will. And I am not disturbed by the fact that this intervention may not be appealable for it is the administration of justice that requires this intervention.

3. Contempt is not the act of non-compliance with a court order alone, but encompasses the nature of that contempt, the extent of it and the surrounding circumstances. I must therefore take cognisance of the unique and scandalous features of this particular contempt. If I were to ignore those aspects, I believe I would be adjudicating the matter with one eye closed, and declining to decide it without fear, as I am constitutionally mandated to do.

All of this, besides being scandalous, is totally irrelevant to the question of sanction upon which he was directed to make submissions.

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Good for them.

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'Unsuspended sentence' wtf?! And why is it not suspended when real criminals get suspended sentences? Where does he appeal this sentence not the verdict? wants, surely he has a right to appeal the sentencing! Does this concourt judgment take his right to appeal th sentence away?

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