Jacob Zuma faces deadline to oppose return to prison

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Former president gets opportunity to respond to ruling that he should return to jail as it may infringe his rights

Former president Jacob Zuma has less than 10 days to make submissions to national commissioner for correctional services Makgothi Samuel Thobakgale as to why he should not return to prison to serve out the rest of his 15-month sentence.

Business Day understands that Thobakgale has asked Zuma, who has been receiving medical treatment in Russia for the past two weeks, to submit representations to him following the Constitutional Court judgment that upheld a previous Supreme Court of Appeal ruling that Zuma should return to jail because he was granted medical parole unlawfully....

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