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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 ...
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.
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.
Former President Jacob Zuma founded the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK Party) in December 2023, intending to contest the election. [126] On 20 May 2024, the Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled that Zuma is ineligible to run in the parliamentary election due to his 2021 jail sentence.
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State (State Capture Inquiry) was established in January 2018 to investigate allegations of state capture and political corruption under the administration of Jacob Zuma, who was President of South Africa from May 2009 to February 2018.
Former President Jacob Zuma threatened Saturday to take legal action seeking to stop the announcement of South Africa’s election results as scheduled Sunday, demanding that allegations of vote ...
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]