Joe Biden delivered another keynote address in Philadelphia. This time & mdash; why the denial of the right to vote is a form of repression and a form of coercion. He also did not mention the events of January 6, 2021, when a group of supporters of former President Donald Trump broke into the US Congress building. However, the current leader did not focus on this and repeated only a few times that the right to legal expression of will – one of the key in America. However, the debate over the fate of those who attacked the Capitol has not subsided: some local lawyers state that many participants in the spontaneous action were held in solitary confinement for several months without trial or investigation. Many are now waiting for “uncontrollable repression.”
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But as Alec Brook-Krasny, the first Russian-speaking member of the New York State Legislature (2006-2015), who is well acquainted with American policy, said in an interview with us, no serious confrontation can be expected. In his opinion, the new government is more interested in smoothing out sharp corners.
& mdash; In my opinion, a sentence for Anna Morgan Lloyd & mdash; adequately. Because she repented of her actions publicly, she talked about it with prosecutors, with the prosecution, and in fact, she “pleaded” myself with such a suspended sentence. This is also because, as we know, the action is meeting with the opposition, and although it is difficult to influence judges in the United States, in my opinion, the White House administration is now opposed to severe penalties. Simply because it is full of resistance. Meanwhile, the White House has set up the process in such a way that it is hardly worth the wait for long real periods.
& mdash; These are, of course, forces of the right nature, unwilling to compromise, for which Trump's loss was a real disaster. They will continue to be active & mdash; it depends on the agreements of the centrists of both democrats and republicans. For the time being, it will be difficult to cope with the radical forces of both sides if they are of great importance on both sides. They have a significant impact in large cities.
& mdash; The persecution will not be cruel, the Biden administration will try to come to terms with the Republicans: first with the centrists and then with the Trumpists. In American political life, it is characteristic that people are not against the enemy party, but rather are afraid of the primaries in their parties. Because Democrats are afraid to compete with the far left, while Republicans do not want to compete with the far right. So now we are talking about confronting the centrists with the radical wings of each side.
& mdash; What happened in Michigan & mdash; a manifestation of American democracy, you are right; & nbsp; in the United States, opposition is almost always equal to the current government. At the same time, however, there is a law specifically in this state that allows you to collect petitions from a certain number of people for the adoption of a new law, in this case & mdash; on elections. Such petitions can be forwarded directly to the state legislature, where this Michigan desire can be accepted, leaving the governor aside. In my opinion, preventive measures will be less serious than they seem: at least to calm the situation.
& mdash; Right-wing movements have always been, this is normal for the United States. Like the left. He got a loud voice right now. This, of course, leads to a split in society. Is the right hiding? It depends on the media. The other, I think, will talk less and less about radicals. Moreover, in the United States, the population has, say, the right to make mistakes. There is a view that this is related to wealth and people's incomes. And political leaders are not always the leaders of society. In the midst of a pandemic, political leaders have played a crucial role, but now the situation is changing, the economy will develop and political leaders will play a much smaller role than a year ago.
The following footage was discovered after the US Capitol pogrom: video
President Joe Biden from the United States said that Washington and Berlin will also defend Ukraine's transatlantic aspirations.
“Our support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity continues, as does [support] for the importance of reforms and transatlantic aspirations,” Bely said at home.
This statement was made by Joe Biden after talks in the White House with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Print White House Secretary Jen Psaki told a news conference that a day in advance, a meeting of Russian and US cyber security experts had taken place, according to her information.
During the press conference, Psaki was asked to provide details of the consultations between the Russian-American group that were to take place.
“In fact, it was yesterday”, – said the press secretary.
She promised to clarify the information and noted that all these interactions are a continuation of the agreements reached in June at the summit of Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva.
The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrei Babis Republic has posted a laconic and strange post on its Facebook and Twitter social sites: “I'll tell the truth tomorrow.” Apart from this phrase, Babis has not published any other publications.
The phrase published by the Czech Prime Minister raised suspicions in a number of media that hackers attacked Andrej Babiš's accounts. But then, in the environment of the Prime Minister himself, it was confirmed that this interesting contribution was indeed published by Andrej Babiš.
Important statement.
But so far it remains unknown which areas of political or socio-economic life of the country will be devoted to Babis's statement.
Exminister resigns from his post Internal Affairs Ukraine's Arsen Avakov does not plan to nominate his candidacy for the election of mayor of Kharkov. The newspaper “Strana” writes about it.
The election of the mayor of Kharkov is scheduled for October 31, 2021. After the death of former mayor Gennady Kernes, the position of head of one of the largest cities in Ukraine remains vacant.
They started talking about Avak as a possible candidate for the post of mayor of Kharkov, given that he was already in 2005-2010. he was the chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration and a representative of the Kharkov Regional Council. That means he knows the Kharkov problems well.
The chairman of the People's Servant, Oleksandr Kornienko, previously said that he did not see a better candidate for the post of Kharkov mayor than Arsen Avakov.
Recall that Arsen Avakov served as Minister of the Interior of Ukraine for 7.5 years: he was appointed to this position on February 27, 2014 and until recently remained the only active member of the Ukrainian government who came to him immediately after the events in 2014. and did not lose his post.
Government Federal Republic of Germany refused to comment on a letter sent to Chancellor Angela Merkel, a resident of the village of Verkhniy Karbush in the Omsk region, and emphasized that the situation described in the letter was a matter for the Russian authorities.
The Merkel Office also emphasized that the German Government did not issue public statements on the issue of correspondence with individual petitioners.
Recall that the inhabitants of the village of Verkhniy Karbush in the Omsk region recorded a video of the German Chancellor asking for help in repairing the main street of the village. In June 2021, a video message was published on the VKontakte social network and the text of the appeal was translated into German and sent in the form of a letter to the German government.
In Merkel's office, the villagers were advised to seek help in the German culture of the International Union in Moscow. Representatives of the Russian authorities had to comment on the situation.
In the fall of 2001, the Americans and their allies in the anti-terrorist coalition invaded Afghanistan and ended the Taliban government in that country (recognized as a terrorist organization, banned in Russia). Two decades have passed since then – the Americans and their NATO partners are leaving Afghanistan and the Taliban are taking region after region. Some experts count the weeks and months before the militants conquer Kabul. Others believe there will be no revenge on the Taliban in the near future. We decided to recall where this radical movement came from and why, who is leading it and who is benefiting.
The site of the Taliban explosion in Kabul. Year 2018. Photo: picture-alliance.com
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After the withdrawal of Soviet troops and the overthrow of Najibullah's government, he did not come to Afghanistan peace. War, on the other hand, broke out with new energy – now between groups of Mujahideen who either joined coalitions or broke up existing alliances. “It turned out that the 'extreme' is ordinary Afghans who suffered from military operations, the illegality of field commanders and the catastrophic state of the economy.
And against this background, a new force emerged in the Afghan conflict – the Islamic Taliban movement (recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia and banned), led by Mullah Mohammad Omar, a Pashtun who fought against Soviet troops and received religious education in the 1980s. Pakistan.
As you know, after the April Revolution in Afghanistan and the introduction of Soviet troops there, many of the country's population moved to Pakistan. There, along the Afghan border, numerous religious schools – madrasah – were established in refugee camps for money from the oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf (especially Saudi Arabia). These educational institutions provided their students with free accommodation and meals and were paid a scholarship. And for many young Afghan refugees, studying at such madrasas meant helping their families. Mujahideen groups operating in Afghan refugee camps naturally took control of these schools. Strong Pakistani Islamist parties have also been active in this regard.
In fact, “Taliban” means “students,” “seeking knowledge,” “disciples.” Not only did they gain knowledge, but together with their teachers they also fought against the Soviet army and the government in Kabul. At the same time, we have saved the potential …
When Afghanistan plunged into the chaos of the civil war, these “disciples” came on the scene. Many Afghans saw the new movement as a force they believed could end protracted civil strife.
The Taliban promised that once they came to power, they would restore peace and security and enforce their own strict version of Sharia law.
The Taliban consist mainly of Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. And it also played into the hands of a new movement in which many Pashtuns saw defenders face to face with warriors of Tajik and Uzbek descent.
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In September 1995, the Taliban conquered the province of Herat, bordering Iran, and a year later seized Kabul and overthrew the regime of President Rabbani, an ethnic Tajik, and one of the Afghan Mujahideen leaders who fought Soviet troops. In 1996, the Taliban declared Afghanistan an “Islamic emirate” and the leader of the movement, Mullah Mohammed Omar, a clergyman and veteran of the anti-Soviet resistance, led him as a “leader of the faithful.” By 1998, the Taliban already controlled almost 90% of Afghanistan.
Many Afghans, tired of the atrocities and bloody disputes of the Mujahideen, welcomed the appearance of the Taliban, which promised to end the civil war, eradicate corruption, curb illegality and ensure the safety of roads and territories under their control.
However, it soon became clear that the Taliban intended to rule with an iron fist.
When he invaded Kabul, he first began killing his enemies – they entered the UN mission and grabbed the man who had taken refuge there in 1992, former country president Najibullah and his brother. After torture and humiliation, they were subjected to cruel and degrading execution.
As Western experts have noted, “the Taliban's jurisprudence was based on the pre-Islamic Pashtun tribal code and interpretations of sharia, tinged with the harsh Wahhabist doctrines of Saudi madras sponsors.” Punishments have been introduced, such as the public execution of convicted murderers and adulterers and the amputation of limbs to persons found guilty of theft. Men were required to grow a beard and women were required to wear a burqa. A special ministry was created to promote virtue and prevent vice, overseeing the enforcement of bans on behavior that the Taliban considered un-Islamic.
Under the Taliban regime, Afghan women were only allowed to study in mosques for up to 10 years. In high school, not to mention universities and institutes, access to women and girls was closed. The Taliban have completely banned women from working at home, and only a small number of doctors and nurses are allowed to work in some cable hospitals. In general, any activity of a woman away from home has been banned – except when accompanied by a close male relative. Women who did not follow the dress code, as well as those who appeared on the streets without a male escort allowed, risked being flogged and verbally insulted. Premarital sex was punished by public stoning.
Spring celebrations of the traditional New Year (Navruz) were banned. Propaganda of any religion (with the exception of Islam, of course) was declared a serious crime, and the transition from Islam to another faith was punishable by death.
In 1998, the Taliban ordered residents of areas under control to discard all televisions, VCRs and satellite dishes within two weeks to instill a “truly Islamic” spirit in Afghan society as films and music lead to moral decay. All cinemas were closed even earlier. In August 2001, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar issued a decree banning the use of the Internet in Afghanistan.
Despite international outrage, the Taliban destroyed the famous ancient Buddha statues at Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, contrary to Islamic canons.
As the French jihadist Gilles Kepel aptly put it, the Taliban was just as “a disaster.” for the Islamic movement “, which turned out to be Pol Pot or Enver Hoxha for the communist movement.
On the one hand, the Taliban is considered a purely Afghan phenomenon, an Islamist Pashtun nationalist group. However, in the future, the Taliban's “emirate” does not appear to be limited to Afghanistan. Taliban ideologues saw the model of the future political system in the form of an ideal theocratic caliphate. As early as 1996, the Taliban-led Afghan newspaper Tolu-yi in Kandahar eventually called the unification of all Muslim countries in the world into a “single, indivisible Islamic caliphate” as a “respected dream.”
It is no wonder that during the Taliban regime, Afghanistan became one of the world's regional and regional centers of appeal not only to diverse radicals, extremists and frank terrorists. It was in Afghan territory that Osama bin Laden took refuge for himself, as well as for many of his like-minded people. The direct cause of the US invasion in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks was, in fact, the Taliban's reluctance to hand over “number 1 terrorists” to the Americans.
In November 2001, under the blow of the Americans and their allies, the Taliban were expelled from Kabul and Jalalabad and expelled from Kandahar in early December. Their “emirate” fell, but the Taliban survived. In addition, he managed to regroup and transform into a powerful military movement, wage guerrilla warfare, and commit terrorist acts, including the use of suicide bombers.
The Afghan Taliban movement, which suddenly appeared on Pakistani territory, has become a major factor in Pakistan's domestic policy. Taliban ideology has spread in various parts of Pakistan, especially in areas bordering Afghanistan – so much so that in December 2007 a group of Pakistani Taliban emerged.
Waziristan has become a Taliban stronghold in Pakistan since the early 2000s, where the Taliban ousted traditional tribal leaders and effectively took power in the region in 2004. In February 2006, the proclamation of the “Islamic Emirate of Waziristan” was announced in North Waziristan. In the spring of 2009, a number of areas of Pakistan did pass Taliban control.
In late 2008 – early 2009, the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban overcame existing differences between them and formed the “Shuru (Council) of the United Mujahideen.” The goal of this alliance was to fight the Western presence in the region.
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The Taliban is now led by the group's leader, “Amir the Faithful” Mawlavi (the highest interpreter of the Sharia canons), Khaybatullah Akhundzad. His predecessors were Mullah Omar, who died in Pakistan in 2013, and was succeeded by Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansur, who was later killed in a US air raid in Pakistan in 2016.
“Amir” has a political representative, one of the founders of the Taliban movement, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of the movement's political office in Doha, Qatar. He is described in the Western media as a representative of a “moderate” camp.
One of the other two deputies of the group's leaders is the son of Taliban founder Mullah Omar Mullah Mohammad Yakub (responsible for military operations). He is called the leader of the “Shura in Quetta”, the supreme body of political control of the movement based in the administrative center of Balochistan Province (Pakistan).
The general public, Mohammad Yakub, was virtually unknown until he recognized the Taliban in 2015 – in two years! – the death of his father, Mullah Mohammad Omar.
Yakub graduated from several conservative Islamic seminaries in the Pakistani city of Karachi, where his family lived after the US invasion of Afghanistan. Experts say the status of Mullah Omar's eldest son has made Taliban warriors and militants visible. Mullah Omar was a charismatic leader and his family and even his closest associates, many of whom were promoted to positions of power, remain highly respected.
In his first statement, the then 20-year-old Yakub called for the group to gather. Since then, the star of the young ambitious mullah has risen sharply – he has consolidated power, although he has failed in his attempt to succeed his father. Nevertheless, the “crown prince” of the Taliban first became the deputy leader of the movement and then acquired the influential position of military commander.
Taliban expert Antonio Giustozzi of the Royal Institute of Joint Services in London describes Mullah James as part of a Taliban “moderate camp” working to end the war through negotiations. In particular, it was suggested that, under the leadership of Mullah James, the Taliban seemed to be adhering to its commitment not to attack Americans leaving Afghanistan. At the same time, however, the Taliban intensified attacks on Afghan government forces in an effort to seize more and more territory.
According to Antonio Giustozzi, Mullah Yakub has strong support for Saudi Arabia.
Another “deputy” Taliban leader is Sirajudin Haqqani, head of the Haqqani Network. In the 1980s, the group, founded by Jalaluddin Haqqani, fought Soviet forces and received funding from the CIA during Reagan's rule. Decades have passed – and in 2012 the United States declared the “Haqqani Network” a terrorist organization. Among these milestones lies the oath of allegiance to the Taliban's Haqqani Network. According to Western experts, the militant group operates mainly in southeastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan and is closely associated with both the Taliban, al-Qaeda (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) and Pakistan's intelligence services.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, the son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, is reportedly responsible for the day-to-day operations of the group, along with several of his closest relatives. In August 2015, Sirajuddin was appointed Deputy Taliban Deputy Leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Mansour, strengthening the Haqqani-Taliban alliance. Haqqani Jr. he is described as even more radical than his father and maintains closer ties with al Qaeda and other foreign extremists in Pakistan.
Although the Haqqani faction is officially part of the Taliban's umbrella structure, the network has significant operational autonomy. Haqqani's network is based mainly in North Waziristan (Pakistan), conducts cross-border operations in eastern Afghanistan and Kabul and is considered the most dangerous group – its militants usually carry out coordinated small arms attacks combined with missile strikes, improvised explosive devices, suicide attacks and attacks. using vehicles with bombs.
At the top of the Taliban is High Judge Mullah Abdul Hakim, who oversees the legal structure of the Taliban and leads the negotiating team in Doha.
In the Taliban hierarchy, a collegial body responsible for decision-making and consultation, the Rahbari Shura, with more than twenty members, plays an important role. According to UN experts, this council decides on all political and military matters of the “emirate” of the Taliban.
In the structure of the Taliban there is a kind of “ministry” or commissions – military, intelligence, economic, etc. d. (more than a dozen in total).
These commissions focus on areas such as economics, education, health and advocacy. For example, the military commission appoints shadow governors and battlefield commanders in each of Afghanistan's thirty-four provinces. The Political Commission has an office in Qatar, which is responsible for negotiations and acts as a foreign policy agency.
Each Afghan province has a shadow governor and a Taliban commander – both appointed by the military commission.
The Taliban also have their own business. The main source of income for the Taliban is poppy growing and drug trafficking. According to a UN report, the movement received $ 400 million from the illicit drug trade in 2018. In the territories they control, the Taliban also collects taxes on business activities such as agriculture and mining. Despite severe UN sanctions, the group supplemented its income with illegal mining, extortion of local businesses and foreign aid.
According to other sources, the Taliban earns up to $ 1.5 billion a year from the opium trade, illegal mining, extortion and foreign donations. In addition, many Taliban leaders own businesses and real estate in Pakistan.
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As Russian Orientalist Andrey Serenko puts it, the Taliban has actually turned into a hybrid tool today. war that Pakistan's special services are waging against Afghanistan.
Pakistan has repeatedly denied creating the Taliban, but there is no doubt that many Afghans who originally joined the radical Islamist movement were educated in madrasas on Pakistani soil.
Pakistan was also one of three countries, along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), that recognized the Taliban regime when they were in power in Afghanistan. It was also the last country to sever diplomatic relations with the group.
And it was on Pakistani territory that the Taliban took refuge and created a strong back infrastructure there. Taliban leaders and their families live in Pakistan.
Many experts claim that Pakistan's intelligence service continues to attack Taliban fighters in the country's western tribal areas in an effort to counter India's influence in Afghanistan. Islamabad denies the allegations. At the same time, the Pakistani authorities are fighting against the domestic group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban, which has some differences from the Afghan group of the same name.
There is also a “moderate” Taliban with which to negotiate with a radical Taliban, Andrei Serenko is convinced that the United States is not well aware of how much the Taliban is controlled by Pakistan's intelligence services: ” According to the political scientist, the conclusion of the agreement between the Taliban and the Americans not only did not bring Afghanistan closer to peace, but brought it even closer to the war: “The war in Afghanistan began to gain momentum rapidly, as much as a result of an agreement reached between the Americans and the Taliban in February last year. Eventually, she untied the hands of the Taliban, which was given a serious impetus in terms of world recognition and political legitimacy. “They flirted with jihadists as they supported the Mujahideen's fight against Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Then, including American support, a fundamentally new structure of jihad emerged in the region, including Al Qaeda (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) that hit America itself ten years later. No one thought that such a great catastrophe would come from the Hindu Kush mountains for New York. And now we have to remember this story. “
According to him, the dynamics of pressure on the ground are feverish
Lukashenko said during a meeting with Vladimir Putin at the Constantine Palace in St. Petersburg that the Belarusian opposition “has switched to individual terror.” >
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According to him, the main thing for Belarus and Russia now is the “security of our states”. “No matter how they put us to sleep, we can see that we have done the right thing at the time and paid attention to the defense of our states.” , something changes every day “. But the main thing, as the head of Belarus said, “they (the opposition – MK) went from rebellion to individual terror. There is a development every day. Individual terror against people who spoke openly, against people who advocated statehood. They have now moved on to the Members. “” According to the KGB statement, the investigations take place in several episodes at once. Among them – an attempt to set fire to mining equipment in the Minsk region, an attempt to undermine the communication equipment of a Russian military unit near Vileika and an attempt on the life of television journalist Grigory Azarenko. The state channel ONT has promised to say more about the activities of the “cells” in a documentary that will be screened on the evening of July 13.
Putin and Lukashenko's smiles shone in the video of the handshake in St. Petersburg
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the appeal residents of the village of Verkhniy Karbush in the Omsk region, who wrote a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel asking for help in repairing the road.
As already mentioned, the Russian appeal did not remain the German side did not respond. An employee of Merkel's team wrote to activists and apologized for the fact that the Chancellor could not find time for personal communication with the citizens of the Russian Federation. She also explained that the German leader could not interfere in the internal affairs of another country and in any way influence the Russian regional authorities. Berlin sympathized with the people of Upper Karbush and advised them to turn to German non-profit organizations operating in Russia for help.
“This is the utterly justified anger of the inhabitants of this village,” & nbsp; Peskov said in a comment on the road situation in the village of Omsk.
According to the president's spokesman, the locals are absolutely right, they accused the local officials of negligence and ignored the situation.
Peskov expressed his conviction that the regional authorities would now pay attention to this issue and take action.
Violence erupted in South Africa over the imprisonment of a former polygamist president
At least 10 people have been the victims of unrest in South Africa. Despite calls from the authorities for reassurance, the violence in South Africa is only deepening. And the chaos was caused by the imprisonment of former country president Jacob Zuma.
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa tagged violence and protests for unprecedented 27 years after the fall of the apartheid regime in the country.
At least 10 people were killed in the clashes – some as a result of gunshot wounds. Among those killed is a 15-year-old teenager with a rubber bullet in his chest, according to local media reports. According to police, 750 people were arrested. There are victims among the police.
According to The Guardian, robbers took away huge televisions, microwaves, clothes and linen amid unrest in the suburbs of Johannesburg, Soweto. Some even went to car and pick-up shops to make it easier to remove the loot.
Many businesses and shopping centers were forced to close, closed shop windows as a precaution, and a number of false alarms led to the panic evacuation of several shopping centers in Johannesburg and elsewhere. reports on social media and calls not only for order but also for obsolete measures to be observed.
While the unrest has so far been limited to the country's two most populous provinces (Gauteng, home of Johannesburg, the largest city and economic center in South Africa and KwaZulu-Natal), authorities have warned that clashes could pose a serious drug and food shortage across the country. This is partly due to the fact that several major South African motorways have been blocked.
There are also warnings that the riots that have taken over the country will slow down vaccination in the most affected country with coronaviruses on the Black Continent. There are also concerns that massive protests and actions by robbers may contribute to the spread of the virus.
The reason for the unrest that engulfed South Africa was the imprisonment of former Head of State Jacob Zuma. It is no coincidence that his home region of KwaZulu-Natal has become one of the main centers of unrest. Banks, shops and petrol stations have closed in the province's capital, Pietermaritzburg. In the center of Durban, the province's largest city, there have been massive burglaries and attacks on medical personnel.
The fact is that the South African Supreme Court sentenced Zuma to 15 months in prison for contempt of court after an ex-president violated a court order to testify for a high-level corruption investigation during his nine years in power in 2009-2018. .
Suddenly, the South African president attracted attention by becoming the first polygamist in the country's history to have 8 wives (five of whom had official status). It has been reported that Zuma has 18 children.
However, the reason for his fall was not the observance of family traditions in Zulu. In March 2018, Jacob Zuma was charged with corruption, extortion and money laundering.
According to media reports, if Jacob Zuma is found guilty of a series of episodes of fraud, corruption, extortion and money laundering, he faces up to 25 years in prison and a large fine.
The first investigation into allegations of corruption against Zuma began in 2005, when he was not president but served as KwaZulu-Natal's Minister of Economy and was one of the ruling party leaders. Subsequently, many other similar cases were opened, some of which were closed.
Zuma, now 80, has started serving a 15-month sentence in a penal colony in his hometown of KwaZulu-Natal. According to the press, this is the first time since the end of the apartheid era in South Africa that a former country president has been sent to prison. While optimists saw this as a milestone in the South African rule of law, the ensuing violence left a dark spot on this success.
In 2018, current President Ramaphos replaced his colleague, a member of Zuma, who faced several allegations of corruption. His own party, which the former president has devoted decades of his life to, has in fact turned its back on its leader.
According to analysts, the imprisonment of Zuma will further strengthen the moderate and pragmatic faction ruling the country. Party of the African National Congress. And it will significantly undermine networks loyal to the former president in government and bureaucratic structures.
Despite allegations of corruption, the 79-year-old former anti-apartheid fighter remains popular with many poor South Africans. So while many people in the country welcomed the court's decision to imprison Zuma, many of his supporters took to the streets to protest. Jacob Zuma's supporters believe that the former president has fallen victim to witch hunts organized by his political opponents.
Sticks, crowds, victims: videos of riots in South Africa have appeared
