Zuma: South Africa s charismatic, yet divisive ex-president
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08/07/2021 - 06:18 Charismatic and jovial, South Africa s ex-president Jacob Zuma was ousted by his own ANC party over accusations of corruption Emmanuel Croset AFP/File 3 min
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South Africa s ex-president Jacob Zuma, once jailed for fighting the apartheid regime, is returning to prison, this time for contempt after handing himself in to authorities.
He was jailed for 15 months for snubbing an anti-graft judicial inquiry commission.
Charismatic and jovial, he fell from grace before the end of his second term in 2018, ousted by his own ANC party over accusations of corruption. He was replaced by the current President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Ex-president Jacob Zuma, once jailed for fighting the apartheid regime, is returning to prison, this time for contempt after handing himself in to authorities.
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He was jailed for 15 months for snubbing an anti-graft judicial inquiry
commission.
Charismatic and jovial, he fell from grace before the end of his second term
in 2018, ousted by his own ANC party over accusations of corruption. He was
replaced by the current President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Zuma - whose middle name Gedleyihlekisa means one who laughs
while grinding his enemies - started off as a herdboy and rose to become
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Supporters of former South African President Jacob Zuma, who was sentenced to a 15-month imprisonment by the Constitutional Court, sing and dance in front of his home in Nkandla, South Africa, July 3, 2021. AFP pic
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NKANDLA, July 5 South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, ordered to surrender himself to start a 15-month jail term for contempt, said Sunday he would not be doing so by the court-set deadline.
“No need for me to go to jail today,” he told journalists at his Nkandla homestead in Kwa-Zulu Natal province, where hundreds of his supporters are camped outside in solidarity.
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