2 hours ago Former President Jacob Zuma is "showing the mediate finger" to South Africa, a curate successful the state has said aft it emerged Zuma had met 1 of the Indian businessmen allegedly astatine the bosom of a immense corruption scandal.
A photograph of Zuma and Ajay Gupta successful an Indian temple was shared by Indian media this week.
Around a decennary ago, the Gupta brothers were accused of profiting from their adjacent links to then-President Zuma and influencing South African policy.
Both parties denied wrongdoing, portion the household near South Africa successful 2018 aft a judicial committee began investigating allegations they were progressive successful monolithic fraud, known arsenic "state capture".
South African authorities cancelled their apprehension warrant for Ajay Gupta the pursuing year.
The 2 younger Gupta brothers, Atul and Rajesh, went to the United Arab Emirates wherever a tribunal successful 2023 turned down a South African petition to extradite them.
In a property briefing connected Friday, furniture curate Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said it was "very disturbing that a erstwhile authorities president openly and unapologetically shows the mediate digit to South Africans who person mislaid a batch of wealth done the Gupta brothers' shenanigans".
Zuma, a long-standing subordinate of the African National Congress (ANC), was forced retired of bureau successful 2018 pursuing a drawstring of corruption allegations. He has ever denied immoderate wrongdoing.
After gathering Ajay Gupta astatine the temple successful India, Zuma, who present heads the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, reportedly said helium would basal for re-election successful South Africa's adjacent elections.
In response, Ntshavheni said 84-year-old Zuma "continues to amusement a mediate digit and assertion that helium wants to tally this state again".
She besides said it was a "disgrace" that the South African precocious commissioner to India, Anil Sooklal, had accompanied Zuma to the gathering with Gupta.
South Africa volition motorboat an probe into the meeting, planetary relations curate Ronald Lamola said.
Lamola said it seemed Zuma was moving "a parallel overseas policy".
Under Zuma's leadership, the MK enactment got astir
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