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South Africa's former president, Jacob Zuma, must hand himself over to police today or face being arrested. Last week the country's constitutional court sentenced him to a 15-month jail term for contempt of court. That's after he ignored court orders to give evidence at a corruption inquiry. Mr Zuma's lawyers have been appealing to a court in Pietermaritzburg to block the proceedings. Pierre De Vos is a constitutional law professor from University of Cape Town, who's also written about this in his blog Constitutionally Speaking. So can this appeal stop Mr Zuma going to jail?

(Picture: Former South African president Jacob Zuma at a press conference on 4th July 2021. Credit: EPA)