South Africa: Jacob Zuma hospitalized just before the resumption of his trial
Jacob Zuma, here in May, was scheduled to appear next Tuesday, August 10, before the High Court in Pietermaritzburg.
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Former South African President Jacob Zuma, incarcerated in Escourt prison since last month for contempt of justice, was hospitalized this Friday, August 6.
He is serving a 15-month prison sentence for refusing to appear before a commission investigating corruption under his chairmanship, an incarceration that sparked a wave of violence in the country.
This hospitalization comes just before the resumption of a corruption trial.
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With our correspondent in Johannesburg,
Claire Bargelès
Jacob Zuma was to appear next Tuesday, August 10, before the High Court in Pietermaritzburg.
But after a routine check-up inside the prison, the doctors decided to hospitalize the 79-year-old former president.
He was placed under "
medical observation
", indicates the prison administration, without giving more details on his state of health.
"
There is no reason to be alarmed, for the moment
", for her part detailed her Foundation on social networks, referring to a simple annual health check.
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Jacob Zuma had obtained to be present in person and not by videoconference when his trial resumed next week in the Thales case.
He is accused of having received bribes at the end of the 1990s from the French company, as part of an arms contract and pleads not guilty to the sixteen charges brought against him. against him.
But with this hospitalization, it is impossible to know for the moment if the next hearing will take place.
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