South Africa: Jacob Zuma on trial
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The Times
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🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
One week ago, South Africa's Constitutional Court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt for defying its order to appear at an inquiry into his alleged corruption. Who is the man behind the turmoil and what does this conviction mean for South Africa?
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
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| 0:35.4 | It started with a stern judgement, read out in a formal court of law, but by this weekend, |
| 0:50.3 | the former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, was supposed to hand himself over to the |
| 0:55.2 | police instead the country faced a fresh crisis. |
| 1:03.7 | Columns of uniformed military veterans marched on Zuma's home. |
| 1:09.0 | A company by some of his ANC supporters and armed Zulu warriors, convoys of cars packed |
| 1:25.0 | with his supporters, blocked the roads. |
| 1:29.0 | A human shield had arrived to protect Jacob Zuma from the authorities, with some of his supporters |
| 1:49.2 | threatening a civil war if he was arrested. |
| 1:52.2 | If president Zuma continued to be targeted, and if president Zuma is eventually sentenced |
| 1:57.4 | to prison, that our country will be torn apart. |
| 2:02.2 | The rowdy, fractious crowds sang songs from the struggle, when the ANC, including a young |
| 2:08.5 | Jacob Zuma, fought against apartheid. |
| 2:12.1 | And as he addressed the assembled media, it was the apartheid again that Zuma turned |
| 2:17.5 | to. |
| 2:18.5 | Very concerned that South Africa is fast, sliding back to apartheid type rule. |
| 2:27.7 | I am facing long detention without trial. |
| 2:35.8 | As Jacob Zuma faces prison, who is the man behind the turmoil, and what will his sentence |
| 2:42.4 | mean for South Africa? |
| 2:46.4 | All listening to stories of our times, from the times and the Sunday times, I'm Manvin |
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