TODAY OUR GUEST IS Political analyst Khanyi Magubane.

  • According to the Department of Correctional Services, Former President Jacob Zuma has been placed on medical parole.
  • Zuma's medical parole means that he will complete the remainder of the sentence in the system of community corrections, must comply with a specific set of conditions and will be subjected to supervision until his sentence expires.
  • The Constitutional Court sentenced Zuma for contempt of court after he refused to testify before the state capture commission of inquiry chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.
  • Zuma spent only two months of his 15-month-jail term in prison.
  • Correctional services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo said a section of the Correctional Services Act, affords the national commissioner, Arthur Fraser in this instance, the responsibility to place under correctional supervision, or day parole, or grant parole, or medical parole to a sentenced offender serving a sentence of incarceration for 24 months or less.
  • Nxumalo added that medical parole could only be revoked if an offender does not comply with the placement conditions