South Africa Elections: Jacob Zuma's Comeback Is a Headache For The ANC – Bloomberg

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A recent opinion poll shows the ex-president’s party is on course to win 8% of the vote.
Jacob Zuma at an MKP rally in Nkandla in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province.
Jacob Zuma, who led South Africa for almost nine scandal-ridden years before the ruling party forced him from office, has staged a dramatic comeback and is shaking up politics before this month’s elections.
The charismatic 82-year-old is leading a new party that’s competing in the May 29 vote, which is shaping up to be the most closely contested since apartheid ended three decades ago. Opinion polls show the African National Congress is set to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time since it took power in 1994, a backlash to its failure to tackle economic stagnation, rampant poverty and power cuts, and that support for Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party, or MKP, may top 8%.

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