LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jacob Zuma, former South African president, turned himself in to police on Wednesday to begin 15 months in jail for contempt of court, the culmination of a long legal drama seen as a test of the country’s ability to enforce the rule of law. Police spokesperson Lirandzu Themba confirmed in a statement…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Africa’s top court has jailed former president Jacob Zuma for “egregious” contempt of court after he refused to appear before a corruption investigation he himself set up. Mr Zuma, 79, was told to turn himself in within five days or face arrest in a landmark victory for rule-of-law campaigners who accuse…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge in South Africa issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for former president Jacob Zuma for failing to appear in court on a corruption case that he has sought to avoid for months — now by asserting that he is ill. The National Prosecuting Authority requested the warrant, the South African Broadcasting…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The mill is on overdrive after suggestions that former President Jacob Zuma was whisked away “incognito” style to Cuba for an emergency medical procedure after sources claimed he was poisoned. This would be the second time Jacob Zuma would have been poisoned after the first attempt was allegedly orchestrated by his wife Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African court on Friday rejected an appeal by former president Jacob Zuma that sought to prevent his prosecution on corruption charges over a $2 billion arms deal. The ruling paves the way for Zuma’s long-awaited trial to start in February 2020. Zuma, in office from 2009-2018, had previously applied for…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Seventy-six-year-old former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, is set to marry for the seventh time. His bride-to-be is 24-year-old Nonkanyiso Conco, who confirmed to TimesLIVE that she and the embattled former president are set to wed. “Yes‚ we are getting married‚ but that is all I can say. I need to…
By Kevin Bloom LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In March 2009, less than two months before Jacob Zuma assumed office as the fourth President of post-apartheid South Africa, the Dalai Lama’s visa application to enter the country was denied. The Tibetan spiritual leader had been scheduled to attend a peace conference in Johannesburg, on the invitation of…