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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma is barred from running for parliament in this month's election, the country's top court ruled on Monday, a judgment that could ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been expelled from the African National Congress after backing a rival party in May's parliamentary election, the ANC said on ...
Former South African President Jacob Zuma was barred Monday from running for Parliament in next week's national election over a previous criminal conviction, the latest twist in his return to ...
Zuma again declined to oppose the application, though he released a public statement hours after the hearing in which he complained about "the emergence of a judicial dictatorship in South Africa". [26] Zuma wrote: We have in South Africa today the gradual entrenchment of the counter-majoritarian problem. Unfortunately, when people rise up ...
Six years after South Africa's scandal-plagued former president Jacob Zuma was pushed out of office, he is backing a new party against his longtime political home the African National Congress ...
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Zulu: [geɮʱejiɬeˈkisa ˈzʱuma]; born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth president of South Africa from 2009 to 2018. He is also referred to by his initials JZ and clan names Nxamalala and Msholozi .
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.
Zuma, who served as president from 2008 to 2018, began serving a 15-month prison sentence in July 2021 after being charged with contempt of court for defying a summons to appear at an inquiry into ...