By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadSlideshow( 2 images) JOHANNESBURG( Reuters)-South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, who has been in police detention since Wednesday night as he starts a 15-month prison sentence for contempt, will be eligible for parole after around four months, the justice minister said. Zuma turned himself in to police to begin his jail term for defying a court order to attend an inquiry into corruption while he was in power from 2009 to 2018. The ability of authorities to bring

In the same month, South Africa's top court dismissed a bid by him to overturn the sentence.... The protests widened into looting and an outpouring of general anger over the hardship and inequality that persist 27 years after the end of apartheid.... More than 300 people were killed and thousands of businesses pillaged and razed. The Department of Correctional Services said it was studying the judgement and in due course will make further pronouncements.( Reporting by Nqobile DludlaWriting by

By Siyabonga Sishi3 Min ReadNKANDLA, South Africa( Reuters)-A South African court on Saturday agreed to hear ex-president Jacob Zuma’s challenge to a 15-month jail term for failing to attend a corruption hearing, as hundreds of his supporters gathered outside his home in a show of force. Slideshow( 5 images) The constitutional court had on Tuesday given Zuma 15 months in jail for absconding in February from the inquiry led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.... He’s not going to serve even o

Zuma had until the end of Sunday to hand himself in, but on Saturday the court agreed to hear his application, suspending the order. The South African Broadcasting Corporation(？... At his hometown of Nkandla, Zuma, who did not speak to his supporters, wore a black and gold tropical shirt as he walked through the crowd, but no mask.... He's not going to serve even one day or one minute of that," his son Edward Zuma told Reuters at the gathering....

By Rogan Ward, Siyabonga Sishi5 Min ReadDURBAN, South Africa( Reuters)-South Africa plans to deploy up to 25, 000 soldiers in two provinces where security forces are struggling to quell days of looting, arson and violence, its defence minister told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, according to local news channel eNCA.A military surge of that size would increase tenfold the number of soldiers deployed in the hot spots of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces, where the police and army have b