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Events in the life of South African President Jacob Zuma, who was elected Tuesday to again head the governing African National Congress:___— April 12, 1942: Born in Inkandla in the rural Zulu heartland.— 1959: Joins the ANC as a teen and just a few years later is arrested while trying to leave the country illegally. Jailed for 10 years on Robben Island, alongside Nelson Mandela.— 1975: Goes into exile. For the next decade and a half in Swaziland, Mozambique and Zambia where he was appointed chief of the ANC's intelligence department.— 1990: ANC unbanned and Zuma among the first leaders to return to South Africa.— 1994: After first all-race vote, serves as economic affairs minister in KwaZulu-Natal, his home province.— 1999: Then-president Thabo Mbeki names him deputy president.— 2003: Prosecutors say they have a case against Zuma, but not one they are sure they can win, and so decide not to prosecute. Zuma was accused of taking a 500,000-rand bribe to protect a French arms company from...

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