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Rights groups hail jailing of South Africa’s ex-leader Zuma: Human rights groups welcomed the imprisonment Thursday of former South African President Jacob Zuma, who began serving a 15-month sentence for defying a court order to testify at a judicial commission …
S.Africa’s ex-leader Zuma could be out of jail in 4 months: Sihle Zikalala, premier of Zuma’s home province of KwaZulu-Natal, told state broadcaster SABC in an interview that it was “so painful” to see the former president hand himself over to police, but …
South Africa: Jacob Zuma confirmed to be in jail at Estcourt prison facility: “I have seen him, he is in very good spirit and he has taken his breakfast, he’s taking his medication. And then he is, as I said, we spoke and I also told him that I’m going to tell the nation that …
Zuma starts jail sentence after handing himself in to police: He was taken to the Estcourt Correctional Centre in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal where he will serve the sentence handed to him for failing to appear at a corruption hearing. HIs daughter Dudu …
South Africa’s ex-President Zuma could be out in 4 months, says justice minister: South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, who has been in police detention since Wednesday night as he starts a 15-month prison sentence for contempt, will be eligible for parole after around four …
Former South African president, Zuma, begins jail term: We need your support to produce excellent journalism at all times. Support the ICIR SOUTH Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has handed himself over to the country’s police to begin his 15-month …
Mixed reactions as former S’ African president Jacob Zuma hands himself for jail term: South Africans express relief, happiness and concern after former president Jacob Zuma spent his first night in jail on Wednesday. Zuma had been sentenced last week to 15 months imprisonment for conte …
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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: In June 2007 the KZN parliament passed the Prevention of Slums Bill in the Provincial Parliament. The Bill compels landowners to evict shackdwellers, on the threat of arrest and criminalises resistance to evictions. The provincial Department of Housing, that brought the Bill to the Provincial Parliament, has repeatedly stated that ‘the slums will be cleared by 2010 in KwaZulu-Natal’. The Bill has been heavily criticised by academics, human rights organisations and civil society. The shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo is planning mass mobilising against the Bill and is also taking the matter to the Constitutional Court with support from a pro bono legal centre.
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