Zuma prison fate could be decided next week
Former president Jacob Zuma could potentially find out if he's going back to prison by next week.
In a statement, the Department of Correctional Services said it's received representations from relevant parties on the incarceration term for Zuma.
It's after the Constitutional Court dismissed a bid to appeal a Supreme Court decision.
The court found that the decision by former prisons boss Arthur Fraser to grant Zuma medical parole was unlawful and ordered that he return to prison.
Zuma was jailed in 2021 for defying a ConCourt order forcing him to appear before the state capture inquiry.
He was released from the Estcourt Correctional Centre on medical parole around three months into his sentence.
"The next phase is for the National Commissioner, Mr. Makgothi Samuel Thobakgale, to consider every material received the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal and prescripts within the space of Corrections. Thobakgale will then make his decision on or before the 10th of August 2023," said Correctional Services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo.
