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FILES: Former President Jacob Zuma adresses supporters at a branch meeting in Kwaximba 45 kilometeres south of Durban on December 4, 2022. South Africa’s scandal-hit ex-president Jacob Zuma has made a surprise comeback by running in May’s elections against his former party, the ruling African National Congress .
Zuma, now 82, announced in December he would campaign for the small radical uMkhonto we Sizwe party. An Ipsos survey released last week indicates that the fledgling MK could score more than eight per cent.A powerful orator, he has stepped up his attacks on the ANC, which he says he “no longer recognises”, denouncing its leaders as “traitors”.
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