Embattled former South African president Jacob Zuma was on Sunday placed on medical parole, according to the Department of Correctional Services.
The department said in a statement that Zuma would complete the remainder of his 15-month sentence at home under “the system of community corrections.”
“He must comply with [a] specific set of conditions and will be subjected to supervision until his sentence expires.”
The former president has been incarcerated at Estcourt Prison in KwaZulu-Natal after the country’s Constitutional Court found him guilty of contempt of court for ignoring an earlier order to appear before a tribunal probing high-level corruption during his tenure between 2009 and 2018.
The department said the granting of parole to Zuma was motivated by a medical report it received from his doctors.
The 79-year-old former president was admitted to the hospital for observation in early August for an undisclosed condition and he has remained there since then.
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