Former South African president Jacob Zuma goes to prison

Former South African president Jacob Zuma is now in police custody, after handing himself in to the police a week after he was found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment.

We look at how far South Sudan has gone in delivering the hopes and dreams of the country’s people 10 years on from independence.

And we hear from Egyptian writer Iman Mersal, the first woman to win the prestigious Sheikh Zaid Book award for her nonfiction novel ‘In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat.’

(Picture: Former South African president Jacob Zuma removes his eyeglasses as he addresses the media in his home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal on July 4, 2021. Photo by Emmanuel Croset /AFP via Getty Images)