Police plan to arrest Zuma on Wednesday
South African police plan to arrest former President Jacob Zuma by midnight on Wednesday, in the absence of any further instruction from the Constitutional Court, Police Ministry spokesperson Lirandzu Themba said.
The nation’s top court last week sentenced Zuma to 15 months in jail for contempt of court and ordered that he surrender to the authorities by July 4, or face arrest within three days of that deadline. Police Minister Bheki Cele sought clarity from the court about the arrest order after Zuma applied to a lower court to have it suspended.
“The police will have to make the arrest by midnight,” Themba said. “Failing to do so would mean the minister and the police commissioner would be in contempt of court. The minister has indicted he is not prepared to be charged for contempt of court.”
The judgment on the application to stay the arrest will be handed down on July 9.
Zuma, 79, remains a powerful political player in South Africa, and his case has been a key test for the country’s democracy and its resolve to uphold the rule of law. He ruled South Africa for almost nine scandal-marred years until the ruling African National Congress forced him to step down in 2018 to stem a loss of electoral support. The government estimates that more than R500-billion was stolen from state coffers. He denies wrongdoing.
Throngs of Zuma’s supporters gathered at Zuma’s rural homestead in the southeastern KwaZulu-Natal province prior to the July 4 deadline for him to hand himself over to the authorities, though those numbers have since dwindled.
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