{"id":1363,"date":"2021-03-28T21:11:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T21:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsphere.com\/a-digital-media-startup-growing-up-with-millennial-women\/"},"modified":"2021-06-19T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T17:12:50","slug":"south-africas-ex-president-denies-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsphere.com\/south-africas-ex-president-denies-corruption-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa’s Ex-president Denies Corruption Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, has been on trial for corruption charges. Jacob Zuma’s lawyers have argued that he is innocent due to a lack of evidence. Jacob Zuma was accused of receiving bribes from an arms dealer and a French company and using public funds to renovate his private residence in Nkandla.<\/p>\n

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The verdict will be announced soon, but many people expect it not to be too favorable for Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n

Jacob Zuma, 79, was charged with corruption in a $2.5 billion deal to buy European military hardware more than 20 years ago for the South African armed forces.<\/p>\n

These charges come as a surprise to most people across the globe. Africa and the world at large are not known for holding their politicians accountable for corruption.<\/p>\n

Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s ex-president, said in court that the prosecution against him was politically motivated.<\/p>\n

“They accused government lawyers of working not to find truth but to bolster what they call a narrative of a corrupt political leader.”<\/p>\n

Former president Jacob Zuma has disputed a court charge alleging that he accepted bribes of 500,000 Rands ($34,000) annually from French company Thales in exchange for protecting the company against an investigation into its $2 billion deal to supply combat vehicles.<\/p>\n

The defense team is requesting that the state prosecutor be recused on the grounds of inappropriate delegations.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor requested more time to respond, and the judge granted the request. The trial will be postponed until July 19.<\/p>\n

Ten years ago, South Africa\u2019s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) filed corruption charges against Jacob Zuma. Shortly before he was elected president in 2018, they withdrew the charges.<\/p>\n

Following appeals and lobbying by opposition parties, the national prosecutor reinstated the charges against him in March 2018, a month after he was ousted from office.<\/p>\n

The ex-president has been separately prosecuted for illegally testifying before a judiciary investigation on graft. The Constitutional Court will decide whether this counts as violating his parole and warrants imprisonment.<\/p>\n

##If Found Guilty<\/p>\n

If the trial is successful and Jacob Zuma is found guilty, he could face a sentence of 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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