FILE - In this Sunday, July 4, 2021 record photo, erstwhile President Jacob Zuma addresses the property astatine his location successful Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Zuma has been granted aesculapian parole, aft serving 2 months of a 15-month condemnation for contempt of court. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed, File)

FILE - In this Sunday, July 4, 2021 record photo, erstwhile President Jacob Zuma addresses the property astatine his location successful Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Zuma has been granted aesculapian parole, aft serving 2 months of a 15-month condemnation for contempt of court. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

JOHANNESBURG – The corruption proceedings of erstwhile South African President Jacob Zuma was postponed until Oct. 26 portion the justice considers a plea from Zuma's lawyer that the prosecution squad beryllium dismissed from the lawsuit for being biased.

Zuma wasn't contiguous for the two-day proceeding that ended Wednesday aft helium was released from an unrelated jailhouse condemnation this period connected aesculapian parole. He has been receiving attraction successful a infirmary for an undisclosed illness, according to his foundation.

Zuma's lawyer, Dali Mpofu, asked Judge Piet Koen to propulsion main authoritative Billy Downer and his squad disconnected the case, claiming they person a politically-motivated grudge against Zuma. Prosecutors contradict that and accidental determination is nary grounds of it.

Mpofu besides asked the justice to acquit Zuma of each charges against him aft the prosecution squad is dismissed. Koen said helium needed clip to see the plea.

The 79-year-old Zuma, who was president of South Africa from 2009-18, faces charges of corruption, racketeering, wealth laundering, taxation evasion and fraud relating to a multibillion-dollar arms woody the South African authorities signed with French institution Thales successful 1999.

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Zuma is accused of taking bribes and accepting favors to support the woody from scrutiny. The charges subordinate to the clip earlier Zuma was president but erstwhile helium was a person connected the rise, and see the clip helium served arsenic lawman president of South Africa from 1999-2005. Zuma and Thales, which is besides charged successful the case, contradict wrongdoing.

Zuma was jailed successful July successful an unrelated substance aft refusing to attest astatine a committee of enquiry into allegations of wide corruption successful authorities and astatine state-owned companies portion helium was president. He served 2 months of a 15-month jailhouse condemnation for contempt of tribunal earlier being released connected aesculapian parole.

His parole is besides nether scrutiny amid claims it didn't travel procedure.

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