Correctional Services to appeal Zuma medical parole ruling
The Department of Correctional Services says it will appeal
a court judgment that found former president Jacob Zuma's release from prison
unlawful.
The department says it's carefully studied the ruling handed down by the Supreme Court of Appeal on Monday.
The SCA ruled that former correctional services head Arthur Fraser unlawfully authorised Zuma's release on medical parole in September last year.
It also said that the former president should return to the Estcourt Correctional Services facility in KZN, where he served less than two months of his 15-month sentence for contempt of court.
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But the SCA's asked the acting Correctional Services Commissioner, Makgothi Thobakgale, to make that decision.
“Having carefully studied the judgment, Correctional Services is convinced that another court may arrive at a different conclusion,” says the department’s Singabakho Nxumalo.
“Correctional Services is considering discourse on the basis of interpretation and application of the Correctional Service Act and other relevant prescripts.
The Jacob Zuma Foundation has described the court's decision as "an act of injustice and an exercise in cruelty”.
