South Africa: appeal on Zuma graft charges.
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South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority is set to appeal a reopening of 783 corruption charges against President Zuma. Meanwhile, the country's public protector, Thuli Madonsela, is making new graft enquiries.
Scandal after scandal has plagued South Africa's president in the last few months. From slogans like#ZumaMustFall to #PayBackTheMoney, Zuma's critics have voiced their frustrations over their president's alleged spending sprees and the resurfaced corruption charges. Just months ago, Zuma survived a parliamentary impeachment vote after South Africa's Constitutional Court said he had breached the law by refusing to pay back $16 million (14 million euros) worth of state funds, which he spent on luxury upgrades to his rural Nkandla home.
In April this year, the Pretoria High Court declared that a 2009 ruling that cleared Zuma of nearly 800 charges of corruption, fraud and money laundering was not justified. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) had abandoned the original charges due to lack of evidence. The NPA's head at the time Mokotedi Mpshe had also said that he believed that Zuma was charged on political grounds. Now the government body wants to appeal the high court's decision to question its judgment and re-open the case.
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