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His long-running corruption trial over an arms deal dating back more than two decades was last month postponed to September 9, pending a medical report on his fitness to stand trial. Share this: Share Like this: Related South Africa’s aparthied Court rules Jacob Zuma must go back to jai...
He is still fighting nearly 800 counts of corruption over an arms deal from the late 1990s and his ties with the Gupta brothers, a family of wealthy Indian-born businessmen, are the subject of a judicial inquiry on grand-level corruption. The Guptas and Zuma have denied any wrongdoing. Zuma...
JOHANNESBURG — The expected successor to South African President Jacob Zuma said he has not offered Zuma immunity from prosecution as part of a deal to leave power, South African media reported Thursday. However, political opponents speculated that immunity is a key element in private negotiations ...
The 79-year-old politician was transferred from Estcourt prison to a military hospital earlier this month, only days before he was set to appear in the Pietermaritzburg High Court to answer to the charges of corruption related to the arms deal. ...
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Zuma faces charges of corruption, money-laundering and racketeering linked to a multi-billion-rand arms deal with Thales in the late 1990s, which Zuma has denied. The prosecution alleges that Zuma took advantage of his position in the government to help businessman Schabir Shaik in his commer...
Among the charges, he is accused of taking bribes from French company Thales to ensure that South Africa signed a multibillion-pound arms deal with the company in 1999. Zuma was deputy president of South Africa from 1999 until 2005 when he was fired from that role amid allegations of corrup...
The charges are related to a multi-billion-rand (with the exchange rate between the South African rand and the U.S. dollar being 100 to 8.29) arms deal with European countries in the late 1990s, which Zuma has completely denied.
Zuma and the French arms company Thales are accused of corruption, racketeering, and money laundering linked to the arms deal. The former president has also applied for a special plea to have State prosecutor Advocate Billy Downer removed. He claims that his prosecution is political and Downer ...