before south african president, jacob zuba is back home after a very brief return to prison. zooming was set to restart a sentence that he began 2 years ago for refusing to answer questions about corruption allegations is arrest sparked the large right to the left. hundreds dead . the 81 year old only served to 2 months of a 15 month sentence back in 2021 before being released on medical parole. that release was later found to be unlawful. so soon that was ordered to go back to jail where he did that. but he was there for less than an hour after being sent home, yet again under a new program to avoid prison overcrowding. we, what i mean now is our corresponded diane hawker. she is following this story for us in johannesburg. diane, it's good to see you. i'm, let's just talk about this over crowding program for a moment here that allowed zoomed to walk free from joe again. um, talk this through. what's going on there? smell. good evening brands. i think the oval crowding program is one of those things we've heard about it before, but it's application this time around is really what ha

it has more now on why jacob zuba was allowed to walk free a little surprisingly the department of correctional services this morning and found that they would be not only releasing former prison jacob cooper, but what they called a $9500.00 people who were going to benefit from a sentence, remission program was essentially means that these prisoners would non violent offenders would be either serving at least a portion of the sentence. oh, depending on how much time is lived, actually be allowed to go free. and this is obviously something that would benefit the former president, he had about 13 months left of that sentence. and as a contempt of pulse of court offend, it would be considered a non violent crime. i am pursuing in africa, the government in kenya is cracking down on protests led by the opposition against the high cost of living in plants to raise taxes in the country. the right to purchased is enshrined in kenya as constitution. dw news met one young man whose fault and foul of the action by the authorities looked good too much tells us where he confronted the police not far from h