Manyi confirmed the former president was unwell and seeking medical assistance in Russia.
The news came just weeks after the Constitutional Court dismissed a bid to overturn the Supreme Court of Appeal’s November 2022 ruling that the decision of former Correctional Services Commissioner Arthur Fraser to grant Zuma“That is doctor and patient confidentiality.”said it finds it “very bizarre” Zuma needs to make more submissions to the Commissioner of Correctional Services Makgothi Samuel Thobakgale regarding his prison term.
This comes after the Department of Correctional Services gave the former president a 4th August deadline to make submissions to Thobakgale as to why he should not return to prison to serve out the rest of his 15-month sentence. Zuma, who was jailed in July 2021 for defying a Constitutional Court order to appear at the Zondo Commission of inquiry into allegations of state capture, was released on medical parole in September 2021 by Arthur Fraser.