FF Plus – ‘Zuma’s sentence just for show and undermines criminal justice system’ via SATodayNews
FF Plus – ‘Zuma’s sentence just for show and undermines criminal justice system’FF Plus - 'Zuma’s sentence just for show and undermines criminal justice system'
The fact that the Department of Correctional Services announced that former President Jacob Zuma has served his fifteen-month jail term serves as proof that his sentence was just for show this whole time.When Zuma initially turned himself in to start serving his sentence, I warned that the entire process must be absolutely transparent to prevent a repetition of the Schabir Shaik saga.
Clearly, Zuma, a politician and the former President, received preferential treatment. It creates a dangerous precedent in South Africa and exacerbates the problem of impunity.Whether Zuma did indeed have the right to be released on parole in the first place must be determined.Read the original article in Afrikaans by Dr Pieter Groenewald on
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