{"id":65367,"date":"2023-08-11T08:20:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T08:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artikels.afriforum.co.za\/?p=65367"},"modified":"2023-08-11T08:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T08:20:30","slug":"afriforum-on-jacob-zuma-the-former-president-not-going-back-to-prison-is-confirmation-that-anc-cadres-are-above-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/afriforum-on-jacob-zuma-the-former-president-not-going-back-to-prison-is-confirmation-that-anc-cadres-are-above-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"AfriForum on Jacob Zuma: The former president not going back to prison is confirmation that ANC cadres are above the law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The civil rights organisation AfriForum considers the Department of Correctional Services\u2019 decision to grant Jacob Zuma remission of his sentence an insult to justice and the rule of law. Time spent on parole that was granted unlawfully does not count towards a sentence served. In 2023 the Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court of Appeal\u2019s ruling that former Correctional Services Commissioner Arthur Fraser\u2019s granting of medical parole in 2021 to Zuma just two months into his 15-month sentence was unlawful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department\u2019s narrative that Zuma was one of thousands of inmates who were granted special remission of sentences in an effort to alleviate overcrowding in prisons appears to be nothing more than a smokescreen to help a powerful politician escape justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is no more privileged and protected position in South Africa than being an ANC cadre. Zuma\u2019s special treatment and evading of justice proves this once again. It is clear that the ANC will ensure that none of its comrades ever serve time behind bars, even if it makes a mockery of the rule of law in this country,\u201d says Ernst van Zyl, Campaign Officer for Strategy and Content at AfriForum.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cThe Jacob Zuma case proves that as long as the ANC are in power you can rest assured that anyone close to the party is effectively above the law,\u201d Van Zyl concludes.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The civil rights organisation AfriForum considers the Department of Correctional Services\u2019 decision to grant Jacob Zuma remission of his sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":60032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[11162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-statements"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":11162,"label":"Media statements"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jacob-Zuma.jpg",1023,680,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"AfriForum","author_link":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/author\/chante-kelder-2\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":11162,"name":"Media statements","slug":"media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":11162,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":2952,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":11162,"category_count":2952,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Media statements","category_nicename":"media-statements","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65370,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65367\/revisions\/65370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}