{"id":117051,"date":"2021-07-07T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T11:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=117051"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T11:46:53","slug":"jacob-zuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/jacob-zuma\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Zuma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : On 29 June 2021, the Constitutional Court of South Africa sentenced former President Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for his repeated failure to appear before a jury. Accordingly, which of the following is correct ?<br><\/strong>a. Zuma is accused of rigging during his presidency.<br>b. Zuma is accused of rape during his presidency.<br>c. Zuma is accused of spreading apartheid during his presidency.<br>d. None of the above<br><strong>Ans. a.<br>Related facts &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>South Africa\u2019s top court has recently(3 July 2021) agreed to hear Zuma\u2019s challenge to jail sentence.<\/li><li>The former president has cited his age of 79, health reasons and other unspecified reasons to cancel the sentence.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Background &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 29 June 2021, the Constitutional Court of South Africa sentenced former President Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for his repeated failure to appear before a jury.<\/li><li>It is noteworthy that the \u2018Ahmed Kathrada Foundation\u2019 had campaigned for Zuma&#8217;s removal from office and criminal prosecution of him.<\/li><li>Zuma is the main accused in the corruption of fifty billion rand in which three Gupta brothers &#8211; Atul, Ajay and Rajesh are also allegedly involved.<\/li><li>It is alleged that the Gupta brothers of Indian origin committed corruption because of their alleged closeness with them.<\/li><li>It is also alleged that the Gupta brothers also benefitted two of Zuma&#8217;s children, who are living in self-exile in Dubai.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/south-africas-top-court-agrees-to-hear-zumas-challenge-to-jail-sentence\/article35130792.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/south-africas-top-court-agrees-to-hear-zumas-challenge-to-jail-sentence\/article35130792.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : On 29 June 2021, the Constitutional Court of South Africa sentenced former President Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for his repeated failure to appear before a jury. Accordingly, which of the following is correct ?a. Zuma is accused of rigging during his presidency.b. Zuma is accused of rape during his presidency.c. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":117052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-117051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117053,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117051\/revisions\/117053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}