The Correctional Services Department said it would soon give reasons why it wants to challenge a High Court ruling ordering former president Jacob Zuma to go back to prison.
The department said it intends to appeal Wednesday’s judgment by the High Court in Pretoria which declared the former president’s medical parole unlawful.
His lawyers have already submitted their appeal applications.
The Jacob Zuma Foundation said sending him to a correctional facility that can’t accommodate his medical needs is equivalent to a death sentence.
Meanwhile, the SA Human Rights Commission said it has full confidence in the country’s judiciary
It’s chairperson Bongani Majola said Zuma, like all South Africans, has a right to challenge the court’s decision.
“President Zuma has lawyers who are representing him and they’ve already filed a notice to appeal the decision by the High Court and we should exercise restraint and give the legal process an opportunity to run its course,” Majola said.
The High Court in Pretoria declared former Zuma’s parole unlawful on Wednesday and directed that Zuma should return to prison and serve the remainder of his sentence.
Former correctional services commissioner Arther Fraser granted him medical parole just less than two months into his sentence.
Zuma was released in September, just months after the Constitutional Court sentenced him to 15 months imprisonment for contempt of court.
-EWN
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