ANC Leader Cancels Appearance With Tyson

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - ANC leader Jacob Zuma withdrew from a charity fundraising banquet honoring former boxer Mike Tyson on Wednesday after being criticized by women’s groups in South Africa.In a country with one of the highest rates of rape, Zuma was found not guilty of raping a family friend two years ago. Tyson served a three-year sentence for the 1991 rape of an 18-year-old beauty queen in Indiana.Reporters arriving at the event were handed a statement from organizers saying Zuma “had been called away on urgent ANC business.”

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