Tensions have risen between former South African President Jacob Zuma and his former party, the African National Congress. Zuma served as President of South Africa for 10 years.
The Independent High Electoral Commission in South Africa excluded Zuma from running in the elections expected next May. The heightened tension between the two parties comes at a time when South Africa is preparing for one of the most delicate electoral elections since the fall of the apartheid regime. The party has always presented itself as secular, but it practiced and implemented its secularism without arousing the ire of its popular base.