South Africa’s top court upholds former president’s jail sentence
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s highest court on Friday denied an application by former president Jacob Zuma to rescind his sentence of 15 months in jail for contempt of court in a ruling viewed as a stern test of the country’s resolve to hold powerful figures to account. The Constitutional Court upheld its own ruling that Zuma should go to prison for refusing to testify at a commission of inquiry into widespread corruption in government and at stateowned companies while he was president of South Africa from 2009-2018.