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Former South African President Jacob Zuma was expected to face a disciplinary hearing with the African National Congress party on Wednesday, after he campaigned against the organization he once ...
Former South African president Jacob Zuma said he will not campaign for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in the 2024 general election and will vote for a new party, a sign of ...
Mbalula said Zuma has 21 days to appeal the decision. A series of scandals Zuma was forced to resign as president in 2018 after a series of corruption scandals and internal infighting in the ANC.
Zuma still enjoys significant support and the latest ruling by the Constitutional Court also increases the political temperature after some MK Party officials had suggested they would reject any decision stopping Zuma from being a candidate. South Africa has had credible, peaceful elections since it became a democracy in 1994.
The Jacob Zuma Foundation said in a statement that the judgment violated the principle of equality before the law. [33] Zuma did not hand himself in to police by the court-mandated deadline of 4 July, but he did so on 7 July, 40 minutes before the police's midnight deadline to effect his arrest.
In July 2021, Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in prison for defying a court order to appear before a judicial commission that was investigating corruption allegations during his 2009-2018 presidency.
Following Zuma's arrest and imprisonment for contempt of court, the foundation has made a number of public statements in his support. These have ranged from denouncing Zuma's sentence, [ 1 ] justifying violent protests, which caused 342 deaths [ 2 ] during the 2021 South African unrest , [ 3 ] to issuing statements expressing concern for Zuma's ...
Zuma revived the challenge against the legality of the 2005 raids, but the appeal was conclusively rejected by the Constitutional Court in July 2008 in Thint v NDPP. [14] In the interim, however, Zuma had applied to have the charges against him, due to be heard in court from 4 August, declared invalid and unconstitutional. [14]