-- South Africa’s Constitutional Court barred Jacob Zuma from running for parliament, but that will do little to disrupt the former president’s bid to shake up next week’s election in the continent’s most industrialized economy where his upstart party remains the biggest wildcard.The country’s top court disqualified the 82-year-old because of his 2021 conviction related to an inquiry into the plunder of more than $27 billion of state funds during his presidency.
South Africa’s constitution bars anyone sentenced to more than 12 months in jail from being a member of parliament.Zuma “is accordingly not eligible to be a member of, and not qualified to stand, for election to the National Assembly until five years have lapsed since the completion” of his sentence, Constitutional Court Judge Leona Theron said in a ruling handed down in Johannesburg on Monday.
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