CAPE TOWN, June 29 (BBC) - South Africa's previous President Jacob Zuma has been condemned to 15 months by the most noteworthy court in the country.
He has been given five days to hand himself in to police. Bombing that, the police serve should arrange his capture.
The prison sentence comes after the Constitutional Court saw him as liable of scorn for opposing its request to show up at an investigation into debasement while he was president.
Mr Zuma's time in power, which finished in 2018, was hounded by unite charges.
Money managers were blamed for planning with legislators to impact the dynamic cycle.
The previous president showed up at the investigation into what has gotten known as "state catch" yet then wouldn't show up therefore.
The request - headed by Justice Raymond Zondo - requested that the Constitutional Court mediate.
Acting Chief Justice Sisi Khampepe was condemning in her decision. Mr Zuma wouldn't go to the court to clarify his activities, she said, and he "chose rather to make provocative, unmeritorious and hostile proclamations that established a determined exertion to reprove the trustworthiness of the legal executive.
"I'm left with no alternative except for to submit Mr Zuma to detainment, with the expectation that doing so sends an unequivocal message... law and order and the organization of equity wins."
The previous president was not in court to hear the greater part governing and has over and again pronounced that he was the survivor of a monster political connivance.
This prison sentence denotes a sensational defining moment for a rearward in man jail 50 years prior, for his part in South Africa's freedom battle, the BBC's Andrew Harding says.
In a different lawful matter, Mr Zuma argued not liable last month in his debasement preliminary including a $5bn (£3bn) arms bargain from the 1990s.
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