Jacob Zuma in ‘good spirits’ after first night behind bars – Lamola

A large media contingent awaited Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola as he addressed South Africans about former president Jacob Zuma’s incarceration at the Estcourt Correctional Centre today.

Flanked by officials from the department, Mr Lamola delivered an address and took questions outside the correctional facility in McFarlane Street this afternoon (July 8).

The minister told members of the media that Mr Zuma was in good spirits after having breakfast and was in a jovial mood.

Jacob Zuma handed himself over to police and in a midnight convoy made his way to the ‘new generation’ state-of-the-art Estcourt Correctional Centre during the early hours of this morning.