(Prabhash K Dutta, the writer of this piece, is a journalist with India Today. This piece first appeared on India Today’s July 15 edition.)
- South Africa is in the grips of widespread violence since the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma in connection with allegations of corruption. The corruption charges against Jacob Zuma have an Indian connection — the Gupta Brothers, who had moved from Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur to South Africa in 1990s. More than 70 people have lost their lives in the violence the scale of which, some say, has not been seen since the end of apartheid in South Africa in early 1990s …
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