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...After his release from prison, Zuma helped organize the underground resistance movement. He fled the country in 1975 to escape arrest and eventually became the ANC's intelligence chief at the party's headquarters in Zambia...
...Appointed deputy president in 1999 by Thabo Mbeki, who became South Africa's president after Nelson Mandela retired in 1998. Their relationship soured in 2005, when Mbeki sacked Zuma following a corruption scandal in which Schabir Shaik, a close Zuma associate, was found guilty of corruption and fraud for paying him some $180,000 in bribes...
...Read Zuma's 2008 TIME...
...Following Shaik's conviction, Zuma was accused of money-laundering and racketeering, stemming from a controversial $5 billion arms deal he brokered in 1999. Zuma denied any wrongdoing, and said the charges were politically motivated. A judge dismissed the case in 2008 due to a legal technicality, but the National Prosecuting Agency (NPA) appealed the ruling. Mbeki would eventually resign as president following allegations that he interfered with the case. The corruption charges were dropped April 9, 2009, just weeks before South Africa's April 22 national elections...
...daughter of a family friend; he maintains the sex was consensual. His testimony that he took a shower after having unprotected sex with the accuser, who he knew was HIV positive, in order to protect himself from infection prompted outrage in the scientific community, not the least because Zuma once served as head of South Africa's National AIDS Council...