Tag: Jacob Zuma
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Ex-President Zuma barred from South African election
South Africa’s highest Court on Monday ruled that former President Jacob Zuma cannot stand as a candidate in next week’s general election.
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South Africa Polls: Jacob Zuma cleared to participate in May elections
Jacob Zuma an ex -president of South Africa, has been cleared to contest the upcoming election by the country’s electoral court. Zuma was barred from participating in the forthcoming elections by South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission, SAIEC, last month, barring Zuma from contesting elections.
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South Africa Poll: Ex-president, Zuma files appeal against exclusion from May election
Jacob Zuma ex South Africa’s president on Tuesday filed an appeal against a decision by electoral officials barring him from running in elections as tensions mount ahead of the May polls. TheNewsGuru reports that South Africa electoral commission last week excluded the 81-year-old politician, who is campaigning for a new opposition party, over a 2021…
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Former South African President, Jacob Zuma set free from prison
Former South African President Jacob Zuma was set free on Friday following the expiry of his prison sentence for contempt of court, a government department.
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South Africa’s High Court orders Jacob Zuma to go back to jail
South Africa’s High Court ordered former President Jacob Zuma to return to jail after setting aside the decision to release him on medical parole, a court judgment showed on Wednesday. The 79-year old began medical parole in September, and is serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court. Zuma handed himself in on July 7…
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Jacob Zuma: South Africa’s jailed leader loses bid to overturn arrest
Former South African president Jacob Zuma lost a court bid on Friday to overturn his arrest for contempt, days after turning himself in for a 15-month jail term. “The application is dismissed,” the presiding judge said. The constitutional court last week ordered Zuma jailed for refusing to give evidence at an inquiry into corruption during…
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Ex-South African President, Jacob Zuma surrenders, starts serving 15-month-jail term
Former president Jacob Zuma turned himself into prison early Thursday to begin serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of the country’s highest court, officials said. Prison authorities confirmed that Zuma “has been admitted to start serving a 15 months sentence at Estcourt Correctional Centre” in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal. It is the first time…
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Ex-leader Jacob Zuma compares S/African judges to apartheid rulers
South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma, on Sunday, lashed out at the judges who gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry. Zuma compared them to the white minority apartheid rulers he once fought. He spoke at his home in Nklandla, in a rural part of Kwazulu Natal province, where hundreds of…
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Ex South African President, Jacob Zuma, gets date to appeal jail sentence
A South African court on Saturday agreed to hear ex-president Jacob Zuma’s challenge to a 15-month jail term for failing to attend a corruption hearing. 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. Zuma had until the…
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Court sends ex-South African President Zuma to 15 months imprisonment
South Africa’s constitutional court on Tuesday, sentenced former president Jacob Zuma, to 15 months imprisonment for contempt of court after he failed to appear at a corruption inquiry earlier this year. Zuma failed to appear at the inquiry led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo in February, after which the inquiry’s lawyers approached the constitutional…