AFP Former president Jacob Zuma leaves the Pietermaritzburg High Court. Picture: Gallo Images/Darren Stewart
South Africa’s embattled ex-president Jacob Zuma, once jailed for fighting the apartheid regime, now faces another 15 months behind bars for shunning a corruption probe into his administration.
Zuma whose middle name Gedleyihlekisa means “one who laughs while grinding his enemies” started off as a herdboy and rose to become South Africa’s fourth president under the banner of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party.
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 and abuse of power.
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