Financial Times perspective: SA leading global fight against strongman rule

"That Jacob Zuma is in prison is a tribute to the robustness of SA’s legal system. It should also serve as an inspiration for other troubled democracies."
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South Africa is ahead of international trends. The jailing of Zuma should inspire other developing democracies 

By Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times of London

The imprisonment last week of Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, underlined a fundamental truth. The survival of democracy depends on an independent judiciary.

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