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JOHANNESBURG - Six years after South Africa's scandal-plagued former president Jacob Zuma was pushed out of office, he is backing a new party against his longtime political home the African National Congress in Wednesday's national election.
He rose through the ANC to serve as deputy president of South Africa from 1999 to 2005 under former President Thabo Mbeki, but was dismissed when he was implicated in a graft trial relating to a $2 billion arms deal. When the ANC eventually pressured him to quit in 2018, Zuma ranted to the state broadcaster for an hour about his treatment by the party he had served since he was a teenager, saying his comrades had not followed proper party procedure.
Soon after becoming president, it emerged that millions of dollars of public money had been spent on upgrades to Zuma's sprawling country estate, including a swimming pool that one minister justified as a fire-fighting resource. Ronnie Kasrils, a former intelligence minister who spent years in the ANC underground, has said Zuma is not the simple man he portrays himself to be.
Within months corruption charges relating to the 1990s arms deal were reinstated and a judicial inquiry started hearings into corruption during his presidency.
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