A self-confessed smuggler, fraudster and money launderer has emerged as a contributor to ANC presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's bid to replace her ex-husband, President Jacob Zuma. This and other astounding information about secret payments to other members of the Zuma family, including the president and his son Edward, is contained in a sensational new book published today. The President's Keepers reveals among other things that: • Jacob Zuma - while he was president - was for a period paid R1-million a month by a security company that belongs to a crony and friend; • The president failed to submit his tax returns during at least the first five years of his presidency; and • Suspected tobacco smugglers paid tens of thousands of rands every month for several years to Zuma's son Edward for his political influence. Read the full Sunday Times story: Gangster Republic: dirty cigarette money is funding NDZ’s bid for president
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