Former ANC leader takes his fight over his imprisonment for contempt of the Constitutional Court to the African Court on Human and People’s Rights
“Many of our people are blind to this reality at this point because they have been successfully hypnotised by the long-standing anti-Zuma narrative,” Zuma said.
He provided three examples saying the first was when previous public protector Madonsela made a recommendation that a commission of inquiry be set up instead of handing over the investigation to her successor.The second example, Zuma said, was the commission chaired by Judge Raymond Zondo in terms of the Commissions Act of 1947 with Zuma saying “this Act is clear on what the law is in cases of contempt of commissions”.
Zuma said he would have used the opportunity to lead evidence before an independent judge but the Concourt made decisions “that have never been taken in our law by asking that I do a mitigation of sentence where there had been no conviction”. Zuma said it was his constitutional right to critique judges “the same way they have a right to critique me as a politician”.
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