Lamola defends Zuma's special remission
Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola has defended the decision to grant Jacob Zuma a special remission.
He says the decision was not only for the former president's benefit.
Lamola and prisons boss Makgothi Thobakgale announced the decision on Friday morning.
Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in prison in June 2021 after defying a Constitutional Court order to testify before the State Capture Inquiry.
He was freed on medical parole just two months into his term.
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In November last year, the Supreme Court of Appeal found his release was illegally granted and ordered the now 81-year-old back to the Estcourt Correctional Centre.
Lamola insists Thobakgale complied with the SCA judgment ordering Zuma to return to prison to complete his 15 months jail term.
The former president returned to the correctional centre north of Pietermaritzburg on Friday morning.
Lamola says this was in compliance of the court order
He spent just over an hour inside before being officially released.
