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The Times

23 Mar 2012

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Jacob Zuma in the Shadow of Corruption Charges

Unless President Jacob Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) appeal the Supreme Court of Appeals (SCA) judgment handed down this week, the lid could be lifted on how the country's first citizen dodged corruption charges.

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IT IS what Jacob Zuma most dreaded. Three years after charges of corruption, racketeering, tax-evasion and money-laundering against South Africa’s president were dropped, the country’s supreme court has ruled to allow a review of that hugely controversial decision. The ruling on March 20th could scupper Mr Zuma’s chances, not only of getting re-elected leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) at the party’s five-yearly “elective” conference in December, but also of serving a second term as the country’s president.