Jacob Zuma

=== Release of Shaik on parole ===
In March 2009, Shaik was controversially released from prison on [[Compassionate release|medical parole]], just over two years into his 15-year sentence. Earlier the same week, Zuma had said publicly that as national president he would pardon Shaik on medical grounds, and denied having played any role in Shaik's release.<ref name="Bearak-2009">{{cite news |last=Bearak |first=Barry |date=10 March 2009 |title=Waiting to Helm South Africa: President or Convict? Or Both? |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/world/africa/11safrica.html |url-status=live |access-date=18 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511092953/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/world/africa/11safrica.html |archive-date=11 May 2011}}</ref> Shaik had applied for a presidential pardon in April 2008 when Mbeki was president, and he continued to lobby for a pardon during Zuma's presidency, saying it was unfair that he had been convicted while neither Zuma nor the implicated arms company had been taken to trial.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brkic|first=Branko|date=2009-10-19|title=Zuma's past comes back to haunt him as Shaik begs pardon|url=https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2009-10-19-Zumas-past-comes-back-to-haunt-him/|access-date=2022-01-13|website=Daily Maverick|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Rademeyer|first=Julian|date=2009-12-21|title=Angry Shaik demands his pardon|url=https://www.news24.com/witness/archive/angry-shaik-demands-his-pardon-20150430|access-date=2022-01-13|website=Witness|language=en-US}}</ref>
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