South African ANC renegade Julius Malema was charged with money laundering yesterday in a corruption case his supporters say is part of a plot to silence President Jacob Zuma's most vocal critic.
The trial of Malema, who has backed wildcat miners' strikes and is pushing for nationalisation of the mines, is one of the biggest since apartheid ended and Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) took power in 1994.
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