They are not mentioned much; the article mostly a slam job on the guy so I know my title is accurate. Remember, readers, Israel was the LONE GOVERNMENT that SUPPORTED the RACIST APARTHEID REGIME!! As we can SEE in PALESTINE today, we NOW KNOW WHY!!!!
"Charges against Zuma dropped; S.African favored in upcoming national elections" by Karin Brulliard, Washington Post | April 7, 2009
JOHANNESBURG - Prosecutors said yesterday they were dropping corruption charges against ruling party leader Jacob Zuma, ending a long legal saga just two weeks before national elections that are expected to deliver him the presidency.
The ruling African National Congress hailed the decision by federal prosecutors, who said they had no intention of further pursuing the allegations against Zuma, a former freedom fighter whose campaign was clouded by graft charges stemming from a multimillion-dollar arms deal that took place a decade ago....
But the decision did little to clear Zuma's name, as South Africa's head prosecutor, Mokotedi Mpshe, said the prosecuting team believes that its case was strong enough for trial and that the move does "not amount to an acquittal."
Instead, he said, phone recordings submitted recently by Zuma's legal team revealed that former prosecutors and the nation's former top investigator had tainted the legal process by discussing the political consequences of the timing of the charges....
Like BUSH'S DOJ!!!!
The decision raised new questions and confusion about the independence of South Africa's judicial system. Zuma supporters have long said the charges were cooked up by his archrival, former president Thabo Mbeki, from whom Zuma wrested control of the ANC in late 2007. Yet while national prosecutors yesterday emphasized the need to restore autonomy to their agency, opposition parties and analysts said the decision suggested that the same agency had bent to the will of a ruling party now led by Zuma backers....
Although the decision did not exonerate Zuma, it is unlikely to greatly influence the April 22 election. The ANC is expected to win handily, though perhaps by a handful of points less than its nearly 70 percent winning tally in 2004. Zuma's legal battle, which began eight years ago, has been in the public eye for so long that most voters formed their opinions of it long ago, analysts said.
Outside the ANC's headquarters here yesterday, Zuma supporters greeted the news with what resembled an election victory party. Clad in T-shirts stamped with Zuma's image, hundreds danced and sang "Bring Me My Machine Gun," the liberation anthem that has become a Zuma trademark at party rallies....
I like the singing and the dancing better, BUT.....
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