Former S.Africa Leader Zuma Survives Car Crash, Party Accuses ANC - UrduPoint

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Johannesburg, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 30th Mar, 2024) South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma survived a car accident overnight when his vehicle was struck by a drunk driver, but his newly created opposition group accused the ruling ANC party of being involved in the incident.

"Two car accidents in a space of a year and a half, both accidents committed by purported 'drunk drivers' who manage to drive directly into President Zuma's motorcade", a spokesman for Zuma's uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party said in a statement.

"This looks like a deliberate attempt to assassinate President Zuma," said the spokesman, Nhlamulo Ndhlela.

Ndhlela said the party had "been monitoring and observing a sequence of inter-related events" that have happened to Zuma under the "Cyril Ramaphosa government", after Zuma announced in December that he would be campaigning for the MK party in bid to relaunch his political career.

Zuma, 81, and his bodyguards escaped uninjured and he was taken to his place of residence.

On Wednesday, the ANC filed a new court application against MK after losing an initial bid to have the party disqualified.

The ANC says that MK's name and logo are similar to those of the now disbanded apartheid-era military wing of the ANC once led by Nelson Mandela, and that this could deceive or confuse voters.

Zuma's daughter Duduzile Zuma took to X to allege that the car collision was not a coincidence.

"Please don't insult our intelligence, we are not supporters of Ramaphosa", she wrote.

He also noted what he called "dangerous and reckless statements" made by ANC politicians towards Zuma, including a provincial official saying that "Zuma will be in hospital before elections".