Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months in jail by the country’s top court.
This came after he failed to appear before an inquiry investigating corruption during his time in office.
A commission has been hearing allegations the wealthy Gupta family used its friendship with Zuma to win government contracts and influence policy.
Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller joins us on the phone from Johannesburg for the latest updates.
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The Gupta’s really did bring him down, one way or another. Just remember Trevor Noah joking about “The Gupta’s did it” , and turns out that’s the way it should continue to be
Celebration time… yayyyy…he should Lready be in his cell…..he only needs his number now hahahah 26
Biden’s next 🇺🇸❤️, all of them. 😊🇺🇸
You spelt the name incorrect, it should be spelt TRUMP!
@AfrAidNoMore stfu
Trump not Biden. Get it correct.
Donald next
Haaaa South Africa
When u think integrate the west is somehow compatible with ur African culture
Good luck
From west Africa
???
Jealous that South Africa actually obeys its citizens rights unlike many African countries
@adnan sabra So true. The disdain and utter jealousy. No one is above the law. And South Africa has is showing that it is possible to hold leaders accountable in Africa. Winds of change.
Let him rot this what happens when people who had no money do the people wrong
I say if he spill the beans even the RSA current president might be guilty. There’s no way you deputy or vice president with your eyes closed and don’t know what corruption is happening when you second in command for 8 years
Don’t you think if there were beans to spill he would have done so by now? I mean his camp hate Ramaphosa with passion.
Ever heard of mutually assured distruction?
@Ntuthuko Ngema lol I don’t care what it’s called. You were put in power for the people. Not put in charge for own benefit for you and your thousand wives. He is one of the worst crooks but not the worst. He was just the one that got caught but he isn’t the worst. We have to get the others still who allow IT company to do millions or Rands in fencing and butchering to do face masks. All these fools need to be sent to robin island because they forget what our ancestors fought for
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Great news for SA
We need y’all, in America
I always saw Zuma as a proto Trump. I believe Trump will follow Zuma’s fate
Zuma ordered to go to jail..Everybody =YES !!! Finally !!! Justice prevails… Next update = Zuma not medically fit to go to jail, will spend 15 Months at Nkandla under house arrest.
Even if that happens it still more than almost all countries would do to a corrupt leader
That’s what I said.
I’ll give 3 months
@Z H-M are we talking about 3rd world or 1st
@Christiaan Underhay Yes both the 1st world and 3rd world . for the exception of israel
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South Africa is done long time ago. Lived there for 13 years, corruption is unbelievable
@Arashk Momeni We need a name, he needs to be the next one to be jailed.
@Kgoshigadi Lebo let me say this, he was a big name in your “supposed struggle “. People swore by his name.
@Arashk Momeni Does his name start with N?
@Kgoshigadi Lebo my heart really goes out to decent south africans white and black. Unfortunately I’m not very optimistic if you going to win this battle, I hope I’m wrong. Most corrupt people were in position of power and most decent people ordinary people and limited to no power
@Arashk Momeni Then you haven’t been doing business in other countries. South Africa & Africa doesn’t even come close to other thug countries around the world.
leave Zuma alone
😳…Hello, justice, my old friend…
I’m proud to be South African and proud of my country’s democracy working.
Let’s wait and see if he goes to jail
Like our ex-PM Najib in Malaysia was found guilty for money laundering but still free as a Member of Parliament.
But you’re still going to vote for the ANC again. Is it real democracy when you vote the same party even when they abuse office ?
Same brah
I would not be that happy, dude. Last time we saw these so-called heroes of corruption, that ended up being them who were the criminal ones. Go check out the farse of the LAVA JATO scam in Brazil (also take a look at LAWFARE).
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Time to kak
There’s more to come . This judgement is for contempt of court . I can’t wait 😛
My rich friends and I (as statesman) ate from the fat of the government’s coffers (our hands deep in the honey jar). My friends (the Guptas) influenced me in unspeakable ways, bribing their way into controlling state contracts worth BILLIONS, turning cabinet ministers into puppets. Our friendship was to jeopardize the financial stability of EVERY SINGLE STATE OWNED ENTITY, *the national rail transport agency (TRANSNET), the national airways carrier (SAA), the national electricity supplier (ESKOM), the national aerospace and military technology conglomerate (DENEL), the office of the national treasury*, almost every arm of government was practically under threat of being compromised and captured, even law enforcement and the national prosecuting authority. My friends pocketed BILLIONS of the state’s money in the process… in fact, their mission was to eventually OWN and RUN the country!! Crime intelligence smelled a rat… 100’s of rats, investigations were opened, crimes against the state were uncovered, cans of worms were opened… and the factory that canned those worms!! My friends realized the game was about to be up, they skipped the country to avoid arrest, their assets were seized and attached as proceeds of crimes, and now I’m here alone to face the music.
A commission of inquiry was established to investigate the scope of this state capture. I stubbornly resisted subpoenas to testify at the inquiry. Court proceedings were launched against me. My defiance against the judicial system didn’t help me… The apex court of the country (constitutional court) has now ruled against me.
Story of my life – Jacob Zuma –
Great news, after all the sacrifice Mandela and bloodshed of the South African people, he has no regard for that.
Mandela sold the struggle
Mandela setup the cadre deployment comitee…
Another proof the U.S. are not a democracy. How is the donald still not in jail? Twice impeached, corrupt, stoking racial hate, spreading lies and conspiracy theories, misusing his office for personal gain, betraying U.S. intelligence agencies in favor of their arch enemy and fomenting an uprising. In any other free country he would have been locked up a long time ago.
Zuma in jail is a just decision, not only because of contempt…
Switching to a different continent though – Trump would look good in the orange jumpsuit as well, lol
USA, please watch and learn!
So much for the independence and impartiality of the Judiciary… they not only get to rule others, they investigate themselves and always find no wrongdoing.
No show for corruption inquiry. Surprise. He’s there now. Inquire. Get paid. Gets out.
I wish all the African despots are watching!!
Corruption inquiry. Where’s my end ?
Good!!
Every time I hear about Zuma, Trevor Noah comes to mind 🤣🤣🤣🤣
will be out in time to face his corruption and and racketeering charges
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No Zuma going to prison, instead we might have civil war
You underestimate the rule of law in South Africa.
South Africa has so much to teach the world. From being one of the first countries to allow for marriage equality to their reconciliation to legalising weed now this ! Impressive for an African country. My country wouldn’t dare yet it bombs countries on pretence to spread democracy.
HOW INTERESTING, LETS SEE ALL THE OTHER FOLKS THAT ARE PLUDDERING THE RESOURCES GO TO PRISON AS WELL. THIS IS NO ACCOMPLISHMENT UNTIL ALL THOSE WHO ROB AND STEAL FROM THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA ALSO GO TO PRISON.
Putting all African leaders in prison does sound like a good start in breaking the cycle of corruption.
Ok the level of corruption in South Africa and the countless people who partake in illegal activities is astonishing and nothing like it has occurred in any other nation in the continent of Africa. The rest of the African nations are managing very well despite a few problems here and there which are nothing in comparison to what happens in South Africa every single day not to mention the racism, segregation and deliberate lack of education, healthcare and opportunities that the indigenous people of South Africa are purposely deprived of and forced to endure to this very day. Corruption within government and by their previous president in South Africa is the least of their problems.
good, he must go. we have no money, not even for vaccines. looters!!!!
I can’t stop smiling. God save South Africa.
god left long ago. better packing ur bags and leave.
Our democracy is something to be proud of.
Why did he go to court in the first place
I invite everyone of you to listen Muslim Scholars please
Vandag is ek bly, Suid Afrika het wette.
Now we can only wait.
Pray for us in South Africa.
😂😂😂 trust me he won’t go to jail …..south Africans know
Americans can learn a lesson about the meaning of citizenship here! It can be done. Just elect courageous women into your courts! What a day!
He will now urgently need medical attention in Russia, oh ja, and to pick up some cash, that’s lying around there for him…..
Or he gets admitted to the hospital we build for him at nkandla…..
He will never report, mark my words.
They should have locked him up like all criminals, straight away…
They’re giving family members tenders to bring inn and sell the covid 19 vaccines to poor people who are desperate to get it especially Kenya 🇰🇪 and Uganda 🇺🇬
Well done . .. South Africa. .. now get the rest of the thieves to follow him… just watch within few months, he will fake a sickness…claim he has stage 4 cancer that will cause him to be released early just like his best friend Shabir Sheik.
I’m convinced white South Africans won’t say the same for de Klerk
I got no problem with that. I was born at the “end” of the change. It doesn’t matter when or who. If “whoever” did something unconventional under law. Then the law should rule..
Your comment is irrelevant to the video and overall the whole situation
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Justice at last. (if it is carried out).
I love it. 🙏❤️❤️❤️
Bring the Guptas to book too
temennya megawati. Mr .Indi biningging.. in ndi biginingging..
Will Zuma escape to Dubai or go to jail? Or perhaps civil war????
South Africans have got no time to fight wars to protect corrupt politicians. We want service delivery, jobs, etc.
What only 15 months? Should be 15 years…
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This should happen in most African states especially Kenya
Are you even a Kenyan?
Not Kenya alone in Ghana too the politicians are all criminals
Send him to Robin Island 🤦🏼♂️🤔🤦🏼♂️
I am a black youth and not into politics that much but this is sad. it’s easy for blacks to imprison their fellow blacks for a grain of rice when whites have done things the size of of the whole sack , South Africa still has old presidents and army generals who slaughtered black students in the June 16 massacre and who are involved in the murder of millions of blacks during apartheid, but instead of being in prison their parliament and still getting V.I.P treatment because their white. None of them is in prison. All they had to do is to go to the truth and reconciliation commission and tell parents,wives and children of their victims how they slaughtered their loved ones that’s all they were ordered to do ask for forgiveness. This is how black African Presidents are put down.
One small inconvenience for Zuma, One giant leap for our South Africa Democracy.
I am so proud of our judiciary’s independence and willingness to serve as per the constitution. A major leap indeed.
I smell civil war here
He got the 12 Billion dollars from Gaddafi ❕
In the BENINGING
The whole Zuma clan is a blight on South Africa. Now we have his son trying to jockey for the presidential position.
His father was useless as a president anyway so what the heck is doing with politics again? What a waste of our resources
*I invite everyone for quran recitation thank you* 💔💔🌷🌹🙏🙏….
15 months is that all.
I believe he should have got a harder sentence
Someone needs to go to prison also, for that shoddy brickwork behind that Judge
The court building was constructed using bricks from the demolished awaiting-trial wing of the former prison. Most of the prison was demolished to make way for the new court, but the stairwells were kept and incorporated into the new building as a reminder of the Constitution’s transformative aspirations.
Most of the conspirators, World wide, are baniyas, who fled India. Have come across many such people, during my tenure in the Gulf.
Fahmida clearly didn’t answer the last question correctly. This sentence has nothing to do with his ongoing corruption trial (bribery, fraud, racketeering and money laundering) in the Pietermaritzburg court which has already started and was postponed until the 19th of July on which he was out on a warning (free bail).
The Zumas and the Guptas are birds of the same feather. They know how to suborn and manipulate the system to their advantage. We certainly haven’t heard the last of this arrogant breed.
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AT LAST AT LAST , THIS CRIMINAL GETS SOME JAIL , HE NEEDS TO GET ANOTHER SMACK IN JAIL FOR STEALING ALL THE GOV MONEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So He’s going to Prison for contempt and not Corruption🤔 interesting. After all, they’ve been trying to get Him since 2005.
Looks like they are pulling a LAVA JATO farse on him…
Trust me the only people who support Zuma are those who ate the money with him
LAWFARE?
It’s long overdue for our African politicians who have messed up our continent with corruption in power and monetary affairs. Every single one of them throughout Africa including their families and friends and their girl friends and concubines. They’re a disgraceful people with no compassion for their countries they are leading. We are sick and tired of them all and I wish and that the judicial system in every African country would be bold enough to hold them accountable for the mess they created in Africa. Even in a pandemic when people are dying from the virus 🦠 and hunger and poverty, our leaders are profiting even from the money donated by foreign countries. My country Ghana 🇬🇭 is number one on the list. At the kotoka international airport, they are robbing travelers with fake virus 🦠 testing. Shameless people
Kotoka Azania South ern Africa
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Wow, the incompetent government of South Africa can manage to jail their corrupt former President but the so-called Greatest Democracy in the World can not manage to put one senile corrupt orange mass murdering idiot in the jail house. How is that?
Yes!!! May he rot!!
I pray that one day something like this will happen in Ghana, because some politicians Ghana think they above the law. Good south Africa you have demonstrated you are fighting curruption in Africa. Kudos to you
Let’s go south africa🔥🔥
Next 15 years in jail pls!
This gross piece of trash has always been a canaving crook and the worst of the worst of what corruption can produce, he should be jailed for life, not a few months
Also in namibia our leaders also Corrupted need to be arrested as well..our Salaries are too low especially Security Guard….
Wow actual accountability for political leaders I’m Africa. How extraordinary?!
Nice to see Africa fighting back against its immoral corrupt pseudoleaders
South Africa is a country. Africa, the continent.
@Ja Prosper And what exactly is your point? The rest of the African immoral corrupt pseudo leaders need to watch this space. Good governance is absent in most of Africa, many leaders are despots or dictators and democracy does not flourish. Consider the following crooked lot from the past few years Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea, José Eduardo dos Santos, President of Angola, Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, King Mswati III, King of Swaziland, Omar Al-Bashir, President of Sudan and I could mention twenty more !
Free zuma
African Trump :-))
South Africa 🇿🇦 is the Greatest Country in Africa 🎉 great Democracy great country great People!!
president Buhari of Nigeria where is the corruption you are fighting in your country??? Shame on you 😩
Tenty ten 5 teen months.
Why only 15 months? He will stand before God Almighty!
He was supposed to prisoner 15yrs
Uhuru should be followed
Sierra leone former president Ernest Koroma refused court order nothing has imposed on him, cuz Sierra Leonean does not believe in the rules of laws.
Thanks SA for making such example