Lamola to outline Correctional Services processes for Zuma's jail term
Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, will provide clarity on former president Jacob Zuma's incarceration on Thursday afternoon.
In a media statement, the Minister's office said he would "outline Correctional Services processes as they relate to the execution of the Constitutional Court order in the matter involving the Secretary of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption, and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State v Zuma and Others."
Zuma handed himself over to the authorities on late Wednesday night.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, the Department of Correctional Services' Singabakho Nxumalo sent out a statement, saying: "The Department of Correctional Services can confirm that Mr Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma has been admitted to start serving a 15 months sentence at Estcourt Correctional Centre, KwaZulu-Natal.
"Mr Zuma will be taken through all the admission processes as per DCS regulations. Other relevant prescripts pertaining to admitting and orientating newly incarcerated persons will also be followed and executed.
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"Details about the appropriate classification, prerogatives and incarceration conditions can only be determined at the completion of the assessment process to be undertaken by relevant authorities within the employ of DCS."
Zuma, who mounted a legal attempt to avoid jail, refused to turn himself in by Sunday night as ordered by the Constitutional Court last week.
Police were given three days to arrest him if he failed to surrender.
