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The Constitutional Court has dismissed the application by former President Jacob Zuma for the court to rescind its order to jail him for 15 months for contempt of court.
The majority judgment handed down on Friday found that the grounds offered in Zuma's application were not sufficient enough to convince the court to review the judgment.
Judge Sisi Khampepe said Zuma opted not to participate in the proceedings when the application for Contempt of Court order was made by the State Capture Commission after the former President walked out of the proceedings.
She said Zuma was given notice of the contempt of court proceedings against him and what the relief the Commission was seeking.
"Despite this, he elected not to participate. The majority emphatically rejects any suggestion that litigants can be allowed to butcher, of their own will, judicial process which in all respects has been carried out with the utmost degree of regularity, only to later to plead the absent victim," she said.
Meanwhile, a minority judgment lamented that Zuma's detention was authorised without a trial in contravention of Section 12 (1b) of the Constitution.
She said the minority of judges also found that this breached his rights guaranteed by other sections of the Constitution.
Khampepe said the dissenting judgment referred to the need for recourse to International Law which guarantees a person's rights against unlawful detention.
She said this view was also rejected by the majority judgment.
Zuma has since been released from prison on medical parole, with the decision by the National Commissioner, Arthur Fraser, now facing court challenges.
