AfriForum turns to courts for details on Zuma remission
AfriForum says it's filed an application to have President Cyril Ramaphosa make public the details around Jacob Zuma's remission of sentence.
The Constitutional Court upheld a Supreme Court of Appeals ruling that Zuma's early release from prison on medical parole was unlawful.
Last Friday, the former president reported back to the Estcourt Correctional Centre to be processed but was released about two hours later as his remission was announced.
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The Justice and Correctional Services Minister later said the decision wasn't only for Zuma's benefit, adding other non-violent offenders would also be freed to ease overcrowding in prisons.
AfriForum's Ernst van Zyl say it all seems too coincidental.
"That is why specifically those circumstances around it means why AfriForum did apply an application to give the necessary transparency.
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"We can see if everything is above board, we will see how the decision process was followed, how are people selected to qualify surrounding the situation that I think anyone would think is quite suspicious."
