Back in the dock?

摘要

It is what Jacob Zuma most dreaded. Three years after charges of corruption, racketeering, tax-evasion and moneylaundering against South Africa's president were dropped, the country's supreme court has ruled to allow a review of that hugely controversial decision. The ruling on March 20th could scupper Mr Zuma's chances, not only of getting re-elected leader of the ruling African National Congress (anc) at the party's five-yearly "elective" conference in December, but also of serving a second term as the country's president.