Former South African President Jacob Zuma, who is facing a 15-month jail sentence for contempt, accused the nation’s top court of unfairly convicting him, and said he feared that the judicial system was being compromised.

“I’m very concerned that South Africa is fast sliding back to apartheid-type rule. I am facing a long detention without trial,” Zuma told reporters at his rural homestead in Nkandla in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province on Sunday. “‘I have a duty and obligation to ensure that the dignity and respect for our judiciary is not compromised by sentences that remind our people of the apartheid days.”


Zuma ruled South Africa for almost nine scandal-marred years until the ruling party forced him to step down in 2018 to stem a loss of electoral support. The government estimates that more than 500 billion rand ($35 billion) was stolen from state coffers under his watch, and dozens of witnesses who’ve testified before an inquiry headed by acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo have placed the ex-president at the center of the looting spree.

The Constitutional Court on June 29 found Zuma, 79, guilty of violating its order to testify before Zondo, but on Saturday it agreed to consider his application for the judgment to be reviewed and scheduled a hearing for July 12.

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