JZ Foundation welcomes Correctional Services move to challenge SCA ruling

The Bloemfontein court ruled on Monday that Zuma's release was against the law and that he should return to the Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal. 

It would then be up to the current prison's boss to decide on the time served and whether he should be released. 

But Correctional Services believes another court could very well come to a different conclusion. 

The foundation's Mzwanele Manyi says they are appalled at the SCA ruling.

"This judgment in context is still trapped in the apartheid framework in that the Constitutional Court's intent was to punish President Zuma. So you have courts in this country whose determination is contrary to the constitutional dispensation, which is about rehabilitation."

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"The reason we don't have prisons in South Africa today, we have correctional services centres, is because we have a constitutional dispensation that is corrective, not if you are going to have courts that are going to take us back to apartheid systems and want prisons and want people punished. Then we have a problem." 

Manyi says the foundation believes the former president has completed his sentence.

"If you are on parole, you are still a prisoner. If you are on parole like President Zuma you must get permission to go to a funeral, you have to get permission to go from Nkandla to Gauteng. What kind of freedom is that?'

Manyi has also slammed DA leader John Steenhuisen for demanding Zuma return to prison to complete his sentence. 

He says Zuma will not go back to prison.

"We are not concerned about Steenhuisen, it is not going to be sustainable. The bottom line is that President Zuma is not going to go back there despite their hatred because he has served his term and respected the law. What more is required?”