Fmr. South African pres. Zuma says won't surrender to police by deadline

Former South African President Jacob Zuma says he will not surrender to police by a court-set deadline to start a jail term for contempt. Zuma said sending him to prison would be "the same as sentencing him to death." He noted that constitutional democracy should mean no one is above the law. A South African court has agreed to hear Zuma’s challenges to a jail term given to him for failing to appear before a commission investigating a graft scandal. The former leader asked the court to annul his sentence on the grounds that it is excessive and could expose him to COVID-19. The former president is beset by multiple sleaze and graft scandals during his tenure between 2009 and 2018.