Electoral Court rules that Jacob Zuma is eligible to stand for elections. This is why

The Electoral Court has provided reasons for former president Jacob Zuma to stand as a candidate despite his conviction and sentence by the apex court.The Electoral Court stated that Zuma was eligible to stand as a member of parliament because he could not appeal the judgment of the Constitutional Court, which sentenced him to 15 months in prison.Zuma served his sentence at the Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal.The reasons from the Electoral Court come after the Constitutional Court granted Jacob Zuma and the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party an extension to file their answering…