Zuma in court seeking right to run in South Africa's pivotal election
Former South African President Jacob Zuma gestures as he attends his private prosecution case against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Johannesburg High Court in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 11, 2024.
South Africa's top court began hearing legal arguments on Friday on whether ex-president Jacob Zuma can run for parliament, a case whose outcome will affect a wide open national election on May 29 and could cause security problems if he loses.
Zuma, 82, who was forced to quit as president in 2018 and was sentenced to jail in 2021, has fallen out with the ruling African National Congress and has been campaigning for a new party, uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK).
