CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma was postponed again Monday as he seeks to have the lead prosecutor removed from the case by claiming he is biased. Zuma has already succeeded in getting a new judge to oversee his trial. Thales, which was then known as Thomson-CSF, is a co-defendant in the corruption trial. The charges relate to a time when Zuma was a politician on the rise and later a deputy president of South Africa, but before he became president in 2009. The riots were the worst civil unrest in South Africa since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 17, 2023 14:41 UTC