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The approval by South Africa's electoral court of Jacob Zuma's candidature in the May 29 elections is welcome news for the former President whose fall from grace has been agonising.
The April decision came soon after another blow to Cyril Ramaphosa's ANC, which had objected registration of Zuma's UMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party's name and symbol. The court refused to go into the merits of the ANC objection, arguing that ANC had been negligent, failing to lodge its objection within the statutory timelines.
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