The Supreme Court of Appeal SA (SCA) on Monday upheld an earlier high court ruling that set aside the decision to grant former president Jacob Zuma medical parole.
In the judgement written by Judge Tati Makgoka, the SCA stressed that the effect of its order that Zuma had unlawfully been granted medical parole was that “Mr. Zuma, in law, has not finished serving his sentence”.
However, the SCA has placed the onus on prison authorities to decide whether the time Zuma spent on unlawful medical parole should count as part of his 15-month contempt sentence.
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The first and second appellants (Zuma and the Department of Correctional Services) were ordered to pay the costs of the first, second, and third respondents, jointly and severally, the one paying the other to be absorbed.
