Tanzania, Sept. 8 -- Johannesburg. The corruption trial of South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma, initially set to begin in May, has been postponed for a third time over pre-trial "issues", the prosecutor said Tuesday.
Zuma, 78, is accused of taking four million rand ($236,000) in bribes to facilitate a $3.4 billion arms deal with French arms company Thales in 1999, when he was deputy president.
The former leader and Thales were scheduled to appear in court on May 6 to answer the allegations.
But the case was pushed back to June because of the coronavirus pandemic and then to September 8 over document delays.
South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday announced that the case had again been postponed to December 8 to...