According to the statement, “He will be returning to the country once his medical professionals have finished their treatment.”
The declaration comes a day after the Constitutional Court upheld a decision that Zuma received medical parole in September 2021 without authorization.
After serving less than eight weeks of a 15-month term, he was allowed to leave prison.
Zuma, who is now 81 years old, was imprisoned for skipping a corruption investigation during his administration.
After serving nine years in office, he was forced to leave due to the charges in 2018, although he has insisted time and time again that he is the victim of a political scheme.
The Jacob G Foundation provided the information on Zuma’s travel to Russia because to media speculation, according to Mzwanele Manyi, a representative for the organization.He continued, “Although the trip was private, it was not a secret as was mistakenly alleged. Zuma and his entourage flew “on a commercial airline full of passengers.”
The statement concluded with these words: “The foundation wishes its patron good health and a safe return home whenever the doctors release him.” It did not specify a timeframe for the former president’s arrival in South Africa.
Zuma attended a seminar on carbon credits at the end of the previous week while representing a Belarusian company. The conference was held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
It’s unclear whether the former president of South Africa will go back to prison as a result of the Constitutional Court’s decision.The prison service had requested permission from the court to challenge a previous decision ordering him to return to jail. It stated that it was reviewing the judgment and would make a statement after consulting with counsel.
Zuma was initially granted release by Arthur Fraser, the former head of the prison service and a reputed ally of the former president, for an unexplained medical reason.
It claimed to be writing the former president a letter requesting him to voluntarily turn himself in for arrest “within a reasonable time frame”.
He did turn himself in two years ago after being found guilty of contempt of court following a confrontation in the open.
The deadliest acts of violence since the end of apartheid in 1994, when Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the nation’s first democratically elected leader, were committed as a result of his imprisonment.
More than 350 people lost their lives in the protests, the majority of them in KwaZulu-Natal region, Zuma’s stronghold.
There were claims that his allies were attempting to topple the democratically elected government of South Africa as a result.
A further corruption and fraud case against Zuma involving an arms sale from the late 1990s is also pending.
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