SOUTH AFRICA
Conspiracy Theory
Former South African President Jacob Zuma denounced the corruption allegations against him as the product of a nefarious conspiracy between foreign spies and the remnants of the apartheid-era regime in his first appearance before a corruption commission on Monday.
Zuma told the commission that the foreign-led campaign to destroy him dates back to his return to South Africa from exile in 1990, during the final years of the white-minority regime, when it was concocted to prevent him from revealing the names of foreign assets who had infiltrated the African National Congress (ANC), the Wall Street Journal reported.
“There was a plan to deal with Zuma and Zuma has been dealt with all the time,” said the former president, who also once led the ANC’s own espionage wing.
Zuma has long maintained he is innocent of the corruption allegations against him, the most recent of which concern his relationship with the powerful Gupta family – Indian businessmen who allegedly manipulated government policy in the country before they left South Africa in 2016.
Zuma was forced to resign in 2018 after South Africans finally had enough.
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