Former president Jacob Zuma has been granted leave to appeal the Pretoria high court ruling that the decision to place him on medical parole was invalid and unlawful.
The court had last week ordered that Zuma return to prison to serve the remainder of his 15-month sentence and that time spent outside prison should not be taken into account.judge Elias Matojane on Tuesday that another court could reach a different outcome.
He said the case "raises important questions of public law arising from the interpretation and application of Section 75 sub-section 7 read with Section 79 of the Correctional Services Act 111 of 1998 and regulations promulgated thereunder." He said it was correct that it was not Zuma's own decision to place himself on medical parole, as argued by Zuma's lawyer Adv Dali Mpofu earlier.
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