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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 ...
The expulsion comes after the ANC announced it had suspended Zuma’s membership on January 29 this year, following Zuma’s declaration of support for a newly formed rival political party ...
Former South African President Jacob Zuma Saturday lamented the high levels of poverty among black South Africans and promised to create jobs and tackle crime as he launched his new political ...
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.
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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.
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]
Jacob Zuma's tenure as South Africa's fourth post-apartheid president began on 9 May 2009 and ended on 14 February 2018. He held office under a mandate from the parliamentary caucus of the African National Congress (ANC), which had governed South Africa since 1994 and which won comfortable majorities in the 2009 and 2014 national elections.