Former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma is set to take his fight over his 15-month imprisonment for contempt of the Constitutional Court to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
The Jacob Zuma Foundation confirmed the developments on Saturday, a day after the Constitutional Court dismissed Zuma’s application to rescind the court’s judgment.
The foundation said Zuma had been in consultation with his legal team on various recent developments.
“He has given his lawyers instructions to take the legalisation of detention without trial by Acting Chief Justice Zondo and the ConCourt to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights,” it said in a tweet.
Zuma’s woes started in December 2020 when the Zondo Commission approached the ConCourt on an urgent basis, seeking an order to the effect that Zuma was legally obliged to comply with the commission’s directives and summonses and appear before it to testify.
