APA-Johannesburg (South Africa) Former South African president Jacob Zuma is back in the country following treatment in Russia, his foundation announced on Tuesday.
JG Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi said the former president successfully underwent a “medical check-up and observations” in Russia.
“The JG Zuma Foundation is glad to announce that its patron has recently returned from his medically related trip to the Russian Federation,” Manyi said in a statement.
He added: “The check-up and observations went well.”
He did not provide details of the ailment.
Zuma left South Africa in early July, days before the country’s Constitutional Court ordered that he return to prison to serve the remainder of a 15-month sentence imposed in July 2021 for alleged contempt of court.
He was released on parole in September 2021 after serving only two months of the sentence.
Observers are eagerly waiting to see what action the South African authorities would take to effect the Constitutional Court order.
Manyi said the former president’s return has been necessitated by a private prosecution case in which he is suing a state prosecutor for allegedly leaking his confidential medical records to a journalist.
“In terms of the law, it is compulsory for the private prosecutor to appear whenever the accused persons appear in terms of the summons or as ordered by a judge.”
The matter is set to be heard in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Friday.
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