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South Africa's Electoral Commission said Thursday it has disqualified former President Jacob Zuma from contesting for a seat in parliament in the forthcoming election to be held on May 29.

The Constitutional Court ruling could send Jacob Zuma back to prison, after being released early on medical parole.

The prison is close to his rural home at Nkandla in the Kwa-Zulu Natal province where funeral proceedings are expected to be held.

Hundreds of his supporters, some of them armed with guns, spears and shields, had gathered nearby at his rural homestead in Nkandla.

The inquiry is examining allegations of high-level graft during Zuma's period in power from 2009 to 2018.

In a 30-minute farewell address to the nation, 75-year-old Zuma said he disagreed with the way the ANC had shoved him towards an early exit after the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as party president.

At the time, the "Rainbow Nation", under the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) chief and global icon Nelson Mandela was emerging from decades of apartheid.

The court's order came as thousands of people took to the streets of the administrative capital Pretoria to demand that Zuma, who has been engulfed in several graft scandals, resigns.

South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday brushed aside the killing of Zimbabwean lion Cecil, dismissing the animal's death as "just an incident."

South African president Jacob Zuma dedicated his ANC's landslide victory in this week's elections to Nelson Mandela, 20 years to the day after the late liberation leader's inauguration.

President Jacob Zuma led celebrations Sunday to mark the 20th anniversary of post-apartheid democracy in South Africa, saying it was closer to achieving the dream of a united multi-racial nation.

President Jacob Zuma announced Friday that South Africa will hold its fifth democratic general election on May 7.

South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday announced that Nelson Mandela's funeral will take place on December 15.

Address to the nation by President Jacob Zuma on the departure of former President Nelson Mandela

The current Security Council "might have by now outlived its usefulness", Zuma was quoted as saying in South Africa's Business Day newspaper.

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