SA's scandal-hit ex-president Jacob Zuma has made a surprise comeback by running in May's elections against his former party, the ANC.
Zuma, the fourth president of democratic South Africa between 2009 and 2018, was forced from office under a slew of graft allegations.In 2021, he was briefly jailed for contempt of court after refusing to appear before a corruption inquiry.He was released initially for health reasons, after which President Cyril Ramaphosa commuted his sentence.
Zuma, now 82, announced in December he would campaign for the small radical uMkhonto we Sizwe party. South Africans will vote for parliament on May 29, in what is set to be the tightest election since the introduction of democratic rule with the end of the apartheid era.The ANC, after 30 years in power, risks losing its absolute majority and being forced to share power in a coalition government.Recent polls suggest Zuma’s former political home, the ANC, is on course to score below 50 percent for the first time since it came to power in 1994 when apartheid ended.
For a long time, Zuma prevented Ramaphosa, his successor as president, from establishing himself within the ANC, fuelling internal conflict.
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