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Zuma’s escapades

Not every politician is felled so easily. Some, like the persona in the Bob Dylan poem "rage and rage ... against the dying of the light." South African politician Jacob Zuma is just one such man – the proverbial feline with a nine lives.

The axe strokes of scandals that have been dealt Jacob Zuma, by all logic, should long have felled any mortal politician ... but not Zuma, the man who at just 21, was jailed alongside the iconic Nelson Mandela, and did a decade of hard labour on Robben Island.

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