D-Day for decision on Zuma’s application for stay of arrest

Former President Jacob Zuma will on Friday learn the decision of the High Court in Pietermaritzburg on his application for a stay of his arrest.

This is despite him already being behind bars at the Estcourt Correctional Services facility.

Zuma’s efforts through the High Court has so far proved unsuccessful with him being taken into custody on Wednesday night.

VIDEO: SABC News reporter, Simphiwe Makhanya on Zuma’s arrest:

Earlier this week, Zuma’s lawyer Advocate Dali Mpofu argued that the Pietermaritzburg High Court does have jurisdiction, in common law, to grant an interdict to stay his arrest.

However, Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi for the State Capture Commission described Zuma as a defiant litigant and repetitive law breaker.

Carl Niehaus

One of Zuma’s supporters, suspended Mkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans spokesperson Carl Niehaus, was arrested outside the prison on Thursday for allegedly breaking lockdown regulations.

National Police spokesperson Vish Naidoo warned that a contravention of the regulations would not be tolerated.

VIDEO: Niehaus arrested outside Estcourt prison during a SABC interview:

‘Constitutional crisis’

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala says since the Constitutional Court judgment South Africa was almost plunged into a constitutional crisis or a civil war of some sort.

Zikalala says this has deepened pain among the citizens of the province and the membership of the African National Congress.

Below is the full interview with Premier Zikalala: