South Africa’s Zuma censures judiciary amid corruption probe

‘South African President Jacob Zuma has censured an investigation into corruption allegations against him as a new example of the judiciary’s growing interference in the democratic system.
“There’s no longer any space for democratic debate. The only space there is for court arguments by lawyers. That’s not democracy,” Zuma said on Saturday.
The embattled president ensured his supporters in his home province of Kwa-Zulu Natal that the investigation into alleged influence peddling in his government and a potential prison sentence would not scare him at all as he had been imprisoned during the fight against South Africa’s apartheid, which ended 22 years ago.’
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