Jacob Zuma’s plea to the high court in Pietermaritzburg to stay the execution of the constitutional court’s order of arrest failed, “unsurprisingly” as the judge put it, because it lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter in terms of the hierarchy of the court system.
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