Cape Town – The Democratic Alliance (DA) has reportedly filed urgent papers in the North Gauteng High Court in which it wants the decision to grant former president Jacob Zuma medical parole to be reviewed.
According to EWN, the DA claims in the application submitted on Friday that there was no way that Zuma could have been granted parole without President Cyril Ramaphosa’s knowledge.
The party wants the court to declare the decision unlawful and set it aside, the report said.
“We know the ANC has been looking for ways to get Mr Zuma out of jail from day one of his incarceration and now they got to use the trustee card of the medical parole they abused with Mr Schabir Shaik and Mr Selebi,” the report quoted the DA as saying in the court papers.
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This comes as Correctional Services Commissioner Arthur Fraser admitted during an interview with SABC’s Vuyo Mvoko that he alone decided to grant medical parole to Zuma.
Zuma, who was jailed for 15 months for contempt of court after snubbing graft investigators, was on Sunday granted medical parole.
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The 79-year-old has been hospitalised since August 6 at a health facility outside the prison where he had been incarcerated for ignoring a court order to testify before a judicial panel probing corruption during his nine-year tenure which lasted until 2018.
A report by Times Live said that the DA was seeking an order directing that Zuma be returned to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence.
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