South Africa's Zuma doesn't say if he will comply with jail

Former South African president Jacob Zuma has denounced the 15-month prison sentence he has been given by the country’s highest court and has not said if he will voluntarily comply with the order to turn himself over to the police

JOHANNESBURG -- Former South African president Jacob Zuma has denounced the 15-month prison sentence he has been given by the country's highest court and has not said if he will voluntarily comply with the order to turn himself over to the police. Legal experts and anti-corruption experts have widely welcomed the Constitutional Court's ruling this week that Zuma should be imprisoned for defying a court order to testify before a judicial inquiry into widespread allegations of corruption during his presidential term from 2009 to 2018. Zuma criticized the ruling by Justice Sisi Kampempe as “judicially emotional and angry and not consistent with our Constitution,” in a statement issued Thursday by the Jacob Zuma Foundation. Zuma gave no indication of whether he will hand himself over to South Africa's police within five days, as the Tuesday ruling ordered, or if he will wait for police to come and get him after that period expires.