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South Africa’s jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma was granted compassionate leave from prison on Thursday so he can attend his brother’s funeral, the government said. Zuma, 79, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court last month after snubbing graft investigators probing his presidency. He turned himself in on July 8 at a […]

In this file photo taken on July 04, 2021, Former South African president Jacob Zuma addresses the media in his home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal.

He turned himself in on July 8 at a jail in the eastern town of Estcourt, around an hour’s drive from his rural Nkandla home. “As a short-term, low-risk classified inmate, Mr Zuma’s application for compassionate leave was processed and approved,” the department of correctional services said in a statement Thursday.x

After nine years in office, Zuma was ousted by the ruling African National Congress party in 2018 over a series of graft scandals that arose during his presidency.

 

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