Jacob Zuma has to undertake a renewed round of court battles, and he is now begging his supporters to help pay his legal costs.
A post on the Zuma Foundation’s official Twitter page, contains banking information and a brief overview of why the former president turned to the public to alleviate his financial problems. Zuma’s corruption trial is set to resume next month, and even though his money is finished, he still wants to get a revocation application against the constitutional court.
Former president Jacob Zuma has been hospitalised in Cuba because of ‘complications relating to poisoning’.
Zuma’s lawyers have told the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture that he will not meet today’s deadline to respond to an application by journalist Redi Tlhabi to cross-examine him because he has been hospitalised in an undisclosed foreign country.
The letter from Zuma’s lawyers was sent days before the Sunday World yesterday reported that the former head of state, who did not appear before the Zondo commission of inquiry on his scheduled appearance dates of November 11 to 15 because of alleged ill-health, has been hospitalised in Cuba because of “complications relating to poisoning”.
Presidency spokesperson Khusela Diko referred requests for comment on whether it had been briefed about Zuma’s reported ill-health and its cause to his spokesperson, who has not responded to requests
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