Zuma Graft Hearing Delayed For Third Time To December
September 8, 2020
5:36 pm
The corruption trial of South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma, initially set to begin in May, has been postponed for a third time over pre-trial “issues”, the prosecutor said Tuesday.
Zuma, 78, is accused of taking four million rands ($236,000) in bribes to facilitate a $3.4 billion arms deal with French arms company Thales in 1999 when he was deputy president.
The former leader and Thales were scheduled to appear in court on May 6 to answer the allegations.
But the case was pushed back to June because of …
