Next week’s election could be South Africa’s most important in 30 years, with the beleaguered ANC facing the biggest challenge to its long rule since the end of the apartheid system of …
Former South African President Jacob Zuma, centre, arrives at Orlando stadium in the township of Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, for the launch of his newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe party’s manifesto Saturday, May 18, 2024.CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Former South African President Jacob Zuma was disqualified Monday from running for a Parliament seat in next week’s national election because of a previous criminal conviction.
Zuma once led South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party but was forced out as its leader in 2017 and resigned as president in 2018 under a cloud of corruption allegations. Next week’s election could be South Africa’s most important in 30 years, with the beleaguered ANC facing the biggest challenge to its long rule since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994.
Zuma appears on the party’s election posters and is the face of its campaign. South Africa’s independent electoral commission that governs elections said Zuma’s image could remain on the party’s election regalia, but his name would be removed from its list of proposed candidates. Zuma still enjoys significant support, and the court’s ruling increases the political temperature after some MK Party officials had suggested they would reject any decision stopping Zuma from being a candidate.
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