Johannesburg, South Africa — After days of drama and suspense before handing himself in, South Africa’s Jacob Zuma began a 15-month sentence for contempt on Thursday, after spending his first night in jail.
The former prisoner of the apartheid regime had kept the country on tenterhooks by trying all legal avenues to evade jail, but Zuma became an inmate once again shortly after midnight.
It is the first time a former president has been jailed in post-apartheid South Africa.
He handed himself in at a recently renovated jail in the small mining town of Estcourt in his KwaZulu-natal home province.
The sentence handed to Zuma by the Constitutional Court last week for snubbi…
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