The former president’s legal woes have divided the ruling African National Congress between his camp and that of his successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Zuma gave in to pressure to quit and yield to Ramaphosa in 2018. He has since faced inquiries into allegations of corruption dating from his time as president and before.
The Zondo commission is examining allegations that he allowed three Indian-born businessmen – Atul, Ajay and Rajesh Gupta – to plunder state resources and traffic influence over government policy. He and the Gupta brothers, who fled to Dubai after Zuma was ousted, deny any wrongdoing.
Zuma also faces a separate court case relating to a $2bn arms deal in 1999 when he was deputy president. He denies the charges.
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NKANDLA, South Africa, July 4 (Reuters) - South Africa s ex-president Jacob Zuma lashed out on Sunday at the judges who this week gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry, comparing them to the white minority apartheid rulers he once fought.
Zuma spoke at his home in Nkandla, in a rural part of Kwazulu Natal province, where hundreds of his supporters, some of them armed, were gathered to prevent his arrest. The fact that I was lambasted with a punitive jail sentence without trial should engender shock in all those who believe in freedom and the rule of law, Zuma told journalists.
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By Reuters | July 5th 2021
Supporters of former South African President Jacob Zuma sing and dance in front of his home in Nkandla, South Africa on Saturday, July 3, 2021. [Reuters].
A South African court has agreed to hear ex-president Jacob Zuma s challenge to a 15-month jail term for failing to attend a corruption hearing.
The courts made the decision on Saturday, as hundreds of his supporters gathered outside his home in a show of force.
The constitutional court had on Tuesday given Zuma 15 months in jail for absconding in February from the inquiry led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.
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By Reuters | July 5th 2021
Former South African president Jacob Zuma is seen on the third day of testimony before the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture that is probing wide-ranging allegations of corruption in government and state-owned companies in Johannesburg, on July 17, 2019. (Photo by Kim LUDBROOK, AFP)
South Africa s ex-president Jacob Zuma lashed out on Sunday at the judges who this week gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry, comparing them to the white minority apartheid rulers he once fought.
Zuma spoke at his home in Nklandla, in a rural part of Kwazulu Natal province, where hundreds of his supporters, some of them armed, were gathered to prevent his arrest.