Current location:entertainment >>
Who is Jacob Zuma, the former South African president disqualified from next week's election?
entertainment1People have gathered around
IntroductionJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma was barred Monday from running for Par ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma was barred Monday from running for Parliament in next week’s national election over a previous criminal conviction, the latest twist in his return to politics.
The decision by the country’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, may still be appealed. It ruled that Zuma is only eligible to serve as a lawmaker five years after his 2021 sentence for contempt of court was completed.
Zuma is now the leader of a new party, uMkhonto weSizwe Party, and is campaigning against the long-ruling African National Congress he once led.
Analysts say the ANC, which has comfortably held power since Nelson Mandela became the country’s first Black president in 1994, might receive less than 50% of votes in next Wednesday’s election and lose its parliamentary majority.
That would be the ANC’s worst electoral performance since it came into power in South Africa at the end of apartheid.
Tags:
Reprint:Friends are welcome to share on the Internet, but please indicate the source of the article when reprinting it.“Cultural Currents news portal”。http://capeverde.brianlynch.org/news-72e399578.html
Related articles
Analysis: Larson enters conversation with Verstappen as best drivers in the world
entertainmentINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ask almost any hardcore motorsports fan who the best driver in the world is righ ...
Read moreLawmakers vote down bill that would allow some Alabama death row inmates to be resentenced
entertainmentMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new senten ...
Read moreGen Zs' latest obsession of 'anti
entertainmentGen Z have popularised yet another trend and this time it involves a quirky-shaped straw.In their ne ...
Read more
Popular articles
- Young Boys seals 6th Swiss soccer league title in 7 years after rallying from firing coach Wicky
- 4th China International Consumer Products Expo opens to public
- Golden Bachelor couple Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist reveal how her job impacted their marriage
- Valerie Bertinelli, 63, gushes over her 10
- Iran helicopter crash that killed President Raisi could reverberate across the Middle East
- Ellen Ash Peters, first female chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, dies at 94
Latest articles
Kristin Cavallari, 37, ignores critics of her age
Khloe Kardashian, 39, cradles 'my baby' Tatum, 20 months, on private jet in heart
Sudan's army chief urges for restoring membership in AU
Lawmakers vote down bill that would allow some Alabama death row inmates to be resentenced
OpenAI pauses ChatGPT voice after Scarlett Johansson comparisons
Wednesday adds Steve Buscemi to highly
LINKS
- Struggled with 'I am not a robot' captchas lately? It's not just you... they're getting harder
- Judge to probe corruption accusation against wife of Spain's leader filed by right
- Microsoft and Amazon face scrutiny from UK competition watchdog over recent AI deals
- How YOU can lower your council tax by challenging it
- Edmunds: What you need to know about wrapping your car
- Ancestry website cataloguing names of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II
- Primary voters take down at least 2 incumbents in Pennsylvania House
- Biden signs a $95 billion war aid measure with assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
- Trump factor loomed large as GOP leaders pushed through Ukraine aid
- DEI bans: Conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum