Five things you need to know about Jacob Zuma's contentious sick note

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The date on the medical certificate was altered to January 6. Zuma's legal team could not adequately explain the alteration.

The head of former president Jacob Zuma's legal team, Daniel Mantsha, and former ANC provincial chairperson Super Zuma outside the Pietermaritzburg high court on Tuesday.Former president Jacob Zuma's legal team handed over a medical certificate to prove to the Pietermaritzburg high court that the former president was absent from proceedings as he was unwell.The medical certificate was a standard form issued by a military hospital.

The term “layman's diagnosis” is used in the document. Judge Dhaya Pillay and Zuma's instructing attorney, Daniel Mantsha, agreed that they did not know what it meant. Pillay said it was “puzzling”.

 

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