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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
South Africa's top court began hearing legal arguments on Friday on whether ex-president Jacob Zuma can run for parliament, a case whose outcome will affect a wide open national election on May 29 ...
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.
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]