Mr Zuma is accused of accepting a $33,900 annual bribe from Thales from 1999 to protect the company from investigation. NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA A South African court on Tuesday resumed the trial that has dragged out for years over […]
Jacob Zuma
By AFP Jacob Zuma on Monday said South Africa was becoming a “constitutional dictatorship” after the country’s highest court upheld its decision to jail him for contempt. In a scathing ruling the Constitutional Court last week stood by its earlier order, […]
NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA Prosecutors and lawyers for South Africa’s jailed former president, Jacob Zuma, have jointly requested that his scheduled appearance this week in a corruption trial be postponed. The ex-president’s foundation reported on Monday on its Twitter handle […]
By AFP South Africa’s scandal-tainted ex-president Jacob Zuma arrived in court Monday for the expected start of a trial in a 20-year-old bribery case. Zuma is facing 16 charges of fraud, graft and racketeering relating to a 1999 purchase of […]