{"id":1221405,"date":"2022-10-11T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/ex-south-african-prez-jacob-zuma-freed-as-prison-sentence-ends\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:48:38","slug":"ex-south-african-prez-jacob-zuma-freed-as-prison-sentence-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/ex-south-african-prez-jacob-zuma-freed-as-prison-sentence-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex- South African Prez Jacob Zuma freed as prison sentence ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"39\">\n<p><figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former South African President was freed in September for an undisclosed medical reason<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been freed following the expiry of his prison sentence for contempt of court, the government said on Friday, October 7, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma received a 15-month sentence last year after he ignored instructions to participate in a corruption inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>He handed himself in on July 7 last year to begin his sentence,\u00a0triggering the worst violence\u00a0South Africa had seen in years as his angry supporters took to the streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s OFFICIAL. H.E President Zuma is now a FREE man,\u201d the Jacob Zuma Foundation said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, Zuma was\u00a0released on medical parole\u00a0but in December, the High Court set aside the parole decision and ordered him to return to jail. Zuma appealed the ruling and remained on parole\u00a0pending the appeal outcome.<\/p>\n<p>His appeal had not been determined by the time his sentence expired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Zuma complied with his conditions for medical parole as set out during his placement,\u201d the Department\u00a0of Correctional Services said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll administrative processes have now been concluded and the sentence expiry date marks the end of him serving his sentence under community corrections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"RtcMbExWsMo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Floods: Thousands of Weija, Teteju residents flee while others be bemoan neglect by NADMO (10-10-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RtcMbExWsMo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African President was freed in September for an undisclosed medical reason Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been freed following the expiry of his prison sentence for contempt of court, the government said on Friday, October 7, 2022. Zuma received a 15-month sentence last year after he ignored instructions to participate in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1221407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}