JOHANNESBURG — Former President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, who was released from prison on medical parole in September, must return to serve the rest of a 15-month sentence linked to his appearance before a corruption investigation, a judge ruled on Wednesday. But Mr. Zuma, 79, applied for medical parole within a month of his incarceration and was granted it after being in prison for just two months. It is not clear when Mr. Zuma will return to prison. They argued that the judge had ignored a doctor’s assertion that Mr. Zuma is terminally ill, and said that a correctional facility could not provide the necessary medical care. Sending him back to prison would be “tantamount to the death sentence, which was abolished in 1995 in South Africa,” they said in a statement.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 15, 2021 16:20 UTC