Jacob Zuma’s family speaks out as his wife is taken to hospital

While some of previous president Jacob Zuma’s relatives are pulling in shock after his unexpected choice to hand himself over for detainment on Wednesday night, some essentially acknowledged that this was the stopping point for the one who once sat in the most elevated seat in SA.

Zuma’s cousin, KwaZulu-Natal finance manager Deebo Mzobe, said: “There is no way around the circumstance. We simply need to acknowledge the circumstance for what it is and trust that it will blow over very soon.”

Police affirmed that the previous president was in guardianship in the wake of giving himself over. He was relied upon to be moved to a remedial administrations office in KwaZulu-Natal in the early long periods of Thursday morning.

The Constitutional Court last week saw Zuma as blameworthy of disdain and condemned him to 15 months’ detainment. He was given until Sunday to hand himself over, bombing which police were given until late on Wednesday to make a capture.

As the Wednesday cutoff time lingered, a small bunch of allies — drove by Zuma’s child, Edward Zuma — accumulated at the doors of the family’s Nkandla estate and pledged that they would not leave him alone arrested.

Notwithstanding, at about 11.15pm, an escort of vehicles, some with Presidential Protection Service logos on the entryways, left the property. It wasn’t long after this that police and the Jacob Zuma Foundation affirmed that Zuma was formally in guardianship.

Mzobe in the early long periods of Thursday said: “We are OK, on the grounds that essentially he gave himself over and nobody was harmed all the while. We were stressed over the exercises that were occurring outside the door, however we are OK at this point. What will be will be. That is the world that we are living in.”

Zuma’s more established sibling, Khanya, was speechless and asked to rather be met later on Thursday morning.

“I’m broken,” he said.

Khanya, who lives nearby to Zuma’s questionable multimillion-rand residence, didn’t know that his sibling had chosen to backtrack on his prior choice to not go to prison.

“Kindly would we be able to talk toward the beginning of the day. My heart is broken,” he said.

Zuma’s girl, Dudu Zuma-Sambudla, who has been continually at her dad’s side, tweeted: “Cdes, we commend the detainment of the political dissident Jacob Zuma. Cdes, we commend the imprisonment of the lone man who stayed faithful to ANC. Cdes, no retreat, no acquiescence in battling WMC and their intermediaries in our initiative. Amandla.”

Another relative, who asked not to be named, was additionally stunned at the new development.

“Would you be able to envision, from president to detainee? It is unfathomable,” said the source, who might just uncover that Zuma is their uncle.

The relative said that an emergency vehicle that had been offered admittance to the property at around 11pm was for Zuma’s significant other, Sizakela Gertrude Khumalo.

“The emergency vehicle that came in was for MaKhumalo. It came to go to her since when she heard the news [that Zuma was giving herself over] she may have experienced the shock since she was OK before,” the relative said.

He uncovered that Zuma left the residence to keep away from a police escort which was at that point while heading to capture him.

He said Zuma left “to keep away from gore and viciousness that would happen at the door”.

Another source near the family said: “I’m not OK, but rather history will pass judgment on SA on what truly happened today. We are not lawmakers so we truly don’t have the foggiest idea what is happening.”

Zuma’s oldest child, Edward Zuma, who for the duration of the night had been vowing that his dad would not be going through a night in jail, was not quickly accessible for input.