The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) delivered another big judgment on Thursday, this time dismissing the Department of Correctional Services’ appeal application relating to former president Jacob Zuma‘s release on parole.

The department approached the ConCourt after the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), in November last year, ordered the former president to return to prison.

The SCA had at the time upheld the Pretoria High Court’s December 2021 ruling, which dismissed Zuma’s leave to appeal application.

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Zuma was granted medical parole by former Correctional Services national commissioner, Arthur Fraser, in September 2021, but was later challenged by the Democratic Alliance (DA), the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) and AfriForum.

The litigation followed Fraser’s admission during an interview with SABC News that he had overridden the Medical Parole Advisory Board’s decision not to release the former president from jail.

The former president was handed a 15-month jail sentence by the ConCourt for contempt after he refused to testify at the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture.

This is a developing story