🔒 FT: How world sees SA: ‘Wrecking ball’ Jacob Zuma upends SA election
Despite recent political exile, Zuma’s resurgence with the uMkhonto weSizwe party has sent shockwaves through SA’s electoral landscape.
Despite recent political exile, Zuma’s resurgence with the uMkhonto weSizwe party has sent shockwaves through SA’s electoral landscape.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma triumphed in court, overturning his disqualification from the parliamentary election on uMkhonto weSizwe Party’s ticket.
As Jacob Zuma endorses the uMK Party, a political rival to the ANC, he challenges not only the party’s dominance but appropriates its historical legacy.
A daughter of South Africa’s disgraced former President Jacob Zuma has been placed at the centre of a Russia-backed Twitter campaign to bolster support for the attack on Ukraine.
Currently serving a 15-month jail term for contempt of court, Jacob Zuma has undergone surgery for an unspecified condition.
“The state of Jacob Zuma’s health is still being assessed and a medical report will be submitted to the court by August 20.”
Jailed Jacob Zuma has won a short-term legal victory, which scores him three weeks until his next appearance in his arms deal criminal trial.
Jacob Zuma, who was convicted on contempt-of-court charges last week, has been arrested and is in jail serving his 15-month sentence.
Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times talks to Judith February about whether Jacob Zuma’s sentencing marks a turning point for SA and its people.
“With only minutes before last night’s midnight deadline, Jacob Zuma was arrested and will, this morning, wake up in jail,” writes Alec Hogg.