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Case against Zuma thrown out by South African judge

JUDGMENT DAYTensions have mounted recently as Jacob Zuma’s supporters had threatened to make the country ungovernable should the trial go ahead

AP , PIETERMARITZBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

“There is a ring of the works of Kafka in this,” he added.

Zuma was initially charged in 2005, but that case was dismissed on a technicality in 2006. He was recharged last December, just days after being elected ANC president, with racketeering, corruption, money laundering and fraud related to the multibillion rand government arms deal in the late 1990s.

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