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schema:articleBody	South Africa's top court on Thursday started hearing an urgent application to have ex-president Jacob Zuma jailed for two years for defying an order to testify in a corruption hearing. Zuma has snubbed a government-appointed panel investigating the plunder of state coffers during his rule, claiming bias on the part of its chair, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. The former leader testified only once, in July 2019, before staging a walkout days later. On January 28, the Constitutional Court ordered him to appear before the commission, but he ignored that order. The commission's lawyer Tembeka Ngcukaitobi said Thursday that Zuma's failure to comply with a court order was "deliberate and cynical" and "constitutes an assault" on the rule of law. "His conduct must be seen for what it is, we are dealing with a cynical manoeuvre to avoid accountability. "In his failure to comply, he also adopted a belligerent and defiant tone," the lawyer told the top court in Johannesburg. The commission's lawyers said the 78-year-old must be jailed for contempt of court as his "status as former president does not protect him from the law". Zuma, accused of enabling runaway graft during his tenure in office, was forced to step down in 2018 over graft scandals mainly surrounding an Indian business family, the Guptas -- who won lucrative contracts with state companies and were allegedly even able to choose cabinet ministers. sn/wdb
schema:headline	S.Africa's top court hears bid to jail 'cynical' Zuma for contempt
schema:mentions	Jacob Zuma Johannesburg Court South Africa Tembeka Ngcukaitobi State capture Ray Zondo Constitutional Court of South Africa Cabinet of Israel
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schema:datePublished	2021-03-25 (xsd:date)
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