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Rights groups hail jailing of South Africa's ex-leader Zuma

by Mogomotsi MagomeAndrew Meldrum
| July 11, 2021 12:03 AM

NKANDLA, South Africa (AP) — Human rights groups welcomed the imprisonment Thursday of former South African President Jacob Zuma, who began serving a 15-month sentence for defying a court order to testify at a judicial commission investigating allegations of widespread corruption during his 2009-18 tenure.

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