Judges will on Tuesday rule on whether former president Jacob Zuma will be allowed to appear on the 29 May election ballot.
Zuma, who is running for a new opposition party, has appealed a decision by electoral officials to bar him from the vote over a 2021 conviction.“If the masses want me to be president, what’s going to stop them?” a cheery Zuma told supporters, after the hearing.in what is expected to be the most competitive vote since the advent of democracy in 1994.
In March, the electoral commission said the constitution bars anyone convicted of an offence and sentenced to more than 12 months’ imprisonment from running from office. But his lawyers have argued that the sentence does not disqualify him as it followed civil rather than criminal proceedings.
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