The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
JACOB ZUMA, having been forced to stand down as South Africa’s president, now faces the resumption of a prosecution for taking bribes in a £2.5 billion arms deal in 1999.
Zuma was deputy president when South Africa entered into this massive arms deal to modernise South Africa’s armed forces.
The huge 1999 deal involved new fighter planes, warships and other weapons. The charges, which he denies, are that Zuma and his associates took big bribes to favour particular arms firms.
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES



