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• 2 Understand
• 3.1 By plane
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• 4 Get around
• 9 Stay safe

South Yorkshire is the southern county of Yorkshire in the north of England. Much of it is industrial, but its western reaches in the Pennine hills have lonely moorlands and scenic valleys.

South Yorkshire marks the beginning of "The North" - neighbouring areas just south are in the Midlands. It's nowadays a county in name only, as it's divided into four "unitary" or metropolitan districts, with no county level of government. It's convenient here to consider it in terms of those four, as visitor amenities cluster and transport routes radiate accordingly.

City and towns [ edit ]

The four metropolitan boroughs are Sheffield , Rotherham , Barnsley and Doncaster .

• 53.380833 -1.470278 1 Sheffield the "Steel City" is especially renowned for fine steel products including cutlery. There are many visitor attractions and amenities, and two large universities. Sheffield is the birthplace of Arctic Monkeys, Human League and Pulp.
• 53.43 -1.357222 2 Rotherham is a smaller steelmaking town.
• 53.553611 -1.478889 3 Barnsley is a former mining town.
• 53.522778 -1.1325 4 Doncaster is industrial but has a famous racecourse, and there are several museums and manors in the surrounding countryside.

Understand [ edit ]

Yorkshire was the largest county in England, so in Danelaw times from the 9th century it was divided into thirds - in Old Norse Þriðungr hence "ridings". These were the North, East and West Riding, with the city of York a sort of Capital District of its own. The division was formalised into counties in 1889. There never was a "South Riding" - most of the present area was in West. It became heavily industrialised from the 18th century through iron ore and rich seams of coal, the ingredients for forging steel. South Riding was the title of a 1936 novel by Winifred Holtby, depicting life during the 1920 / 30s Depression, but the bigger slump was late 20th century when coal and steel became unprofitable.

In 1974 there were widespread changes to local government in Britain, and a large chunk of West Riding was separated to become South Yorkshire. As a County Council this only lasted until 1986, when its four large conurbations became metropolitan boroughs, with no intermediate layer between them and national government. South Yorkshire remained simply as a "ceremonial" county. Its industrial towns have much in common with each other, so it continues to make sense for travel purposes to describe them collectively.

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By plane [ edit ]

Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) closed in Nov 2022 .

Manchester Airport ( MAN  IATA ) has global connections, competitive fares, and is only 80-90 min from Sheffield and Doncaster by hourly direct train.

You never fly between London and South Yorkshire, it's too close. Flying into the London airports involves travelling into central London then taking the train north, but that's a quick way to Doncaster.

East Midlands Airport ( EMA  IATA ) near Nottingham has flights from across western Europe and the Med.

Leeds Bradford ( LBA  IATA ) has similar flights to East Midlands, but it's the wrong side of congested Leeds , with no rail link.

By train [ edit ]

Direct trains run every 30 minutes from London St Pancras to Sheffield (2 hours). They run at least twice an hour from London King's Cross to Doncaster (1 hr 40). For Rotherham or Barnsley , travel via Sheffield or Doncaster.

Cross-Country trains run hourly from Derby , Birmingham , Bristol and Plymouth in the south, and from Leeds, York , Durham , Newcastle upon Tyne , Edinburgh and Aberdeen in the north.

East Midlands Trains and Transpennine Express both come from Manchester Piccadilly in the west, and the former also links Liverpool .

Get around [ edit ]

Walk or use bus within each town. Between towns there are buses but train is much quicker, with a frequent service. Trams link Sheffield and Rotherham.

See [ edit ]

• Abbeydale industrial hamlet in Sheffield depicts the early mill era, powered by waterwheels. Then they discovered steam power, fired by coal.
• Later Industrial technology is on display at Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham and Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield.
• Ill-gotten gains: this area lay above the South Yorkshire coalfield, which was thick and easily mined hence immensely profitable, as was the iron and steel industry those coals supported. The owners converted their lucre into vast mansions, and (with a wave of their patrician canes at auctions) bought up freighter-loads of Italianate and Grecian art. Meanwhile their busy colliers dug beneath so industriously that the mansions subsided and fell down. A well-preserved example is Cannon Hall near Barnsley .
• Castles: the best is Conisbrough near Doncaster , paradoxically preserved by falling into ruin, and which launched the modern TV and movie career of Robin Hood . Many 17th / 18th century mansions had no defensive purpose but are described as castles, such as Wentworth near Barnsley , where m'lord swept away the earlier structure, only to painstakingly recreate its picturesque ruin on his front lawn.
• Street art: every urban area has graffiti, but Sheffield has some two dozens murals and similar that rank as works of art.

Do [ edit ]

• Watch football: pro soccer teams play most winter Saturdays, with home stadiums at Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster.
• Walk, bike or boat along the River Don, which is canalised and navigable. South Yorkshire's canals, built to carry away coal, connect to the sea at Goole, and to the Aire-Calder system across the Pennines.
• Go to the races at Doncaster , where the big event is the St Leger in September.
• Sing mass in ancient Egyptian: the Coptic Orthodox Church of St Anthony is in Rotherham . Liturgy is little changed in thousands of years and long pre-dates Arabic.
• Go down a coal mine: the National Mining Museum is just over the boundary into Wakefield, West Yorkshire, but you'll descend into the same coal seam mined in Barnsley and across South Yorkshire.

Eat [ edit ]

• Sheffield has the most cosmopolitan choice, in all price ranges.
• Barnsley Steak is actually lamb. It goes well with green beans and new potatoes, and a big chug of red wine.

Drink [ edit ]

• This is beer-drinking country. Lots of pubs, and the national chain JD Wetherspoon has earned grudging northern admiration for its commitment to real ale, good grub and customer service.

Stay safe [ edit ]

Standard advice about road safety and valuables. The county is mostly low-lying with few natural hazards.

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• Attractive limestone scenery lies a little way southwest in the Peak District .
• York preserves its medieval walls and has many visitor attractions, as does Lincoln .
• Lively Manchester is little over than an hour away.
• Sherwood Forest , enfolding the village of Edwinstowe, is 30 min drive south. Its best-known inhabitant Robin Hood got his big break at Conisbrough near Doncaster, thanks to Sir Walter Scott's novel "Ivanhoe".

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15 Best Places to Visit in South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire was conquered by the coal and steel industries in the 18th and 19th centuries, and after these activities faded the region had to find a new path.

For Sheffield that path is education, culture and a fertile live music scene.

Around the county you have the moors, dales and fells of the peak district to the west and lots of enthralling relics from the time when South Yorkshire led world for innovation and manufacturing.

Decades after the mines closed down nature has started taking over once more.

See “flashes”, wetlands caused by subsidence around rivers, and many of these man-made phenomena are protected bird sanctuaries or country parks.

Lets explore the best places to visit in South Yorkshire :

1. Sheffield

If there’s  a model for how to be a post-industrial city Sheffield would definitely be in the running.

After a couple of decades of regeneration the centre is creative, fun and young, full of nightlife and culture.

Some of this dynamism is owed to Sheffield’s large university population, but also sights like the Millennium Galleries and the fabulous Winter Garden, which was unveiled in 2003. And then there’s the time-honoured institutions like the Crucible Theatre, which has welcomed the World Snooker Championship since the 1970s.

Steel is still manufactured around Sheffield, and there are also well-preserved mills and machinery at Kelham Island and the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.

2. Doncaster

Any British town with the “caster” suffix was once a Roman fortress so this applies to Doncaster.

The town lies on a large coal seam and this attracted industry starting in the 1700s, though there are many strings to Doncaster’s bow.

One of these is aviation, made clear at the Vulcan Experience, showcasing the Avro Vulcan, which was assembled in Doncaster, and the South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum, a trove of 20th-century helicopters and planes at a former RAF hangar.

If you’re around in late-summer two of England’s most valuable races on the flat are run at the historic Doncaster Racecourse; the St Leger Stakes and the Racing Post Trophy.

3. Barnsley

Coal-mining and glassmaking were the foundations of the economy in Barnsley, but after the last local pit closed in the 90s the town staged an economic recovery and has enough to keep you occupied for a day or so.

A lot of the allure lies in the grand estates and country parks close to the town, some of which we’ll cover later.

The big monument in Barnsley is the town hall, which was completed in 1932 and is large enough to be seen from the undulating hillsides miles outside the town.

There’s a high-quality social history museum inside, conveying the mining heritage that disappeared in the space of a couple of decades.

Monday to Saturday, call in at Barnsley’s market, which has been running since the 14th century and has more than 300 stalls.

4. Rotherham

Coal, iron, steel, pottery and glass: These were the industries that caused Rotherham to expand in the 1700s, but the town had been a significant place for centuries before that.

Rotherham Bridge will illustrate this fact nicely; the structure over the River Don was built in 1483 and is rare in the UK as a chapel is an integral part of the structure.

To get your head around Rotherham go to the Clifton Museum, where the town’s industry will be laid bare and there’s a big display of the prized Rockingham pottery which was fashioned in local kilns.

5. Peak District

Sheffield is billed as the eastern gateway to the Peak District National Park, which covers a majestic and sparsely populated upland region.

In these northern stretches of the park you’ll journey into barren sandstone moorland, which has a wild and desolate allure that brings Wuthering Heights to mind.

There will be rugged sandstone walls delineating pasture, dales dotted with sheep and lots of remote hamlets and villages where time seems to have stood still.

Sheffield has road and train links delivering you to the park in a matter of minutes.

6. Wentworth

North of Rotherham, Wentworth is a beautiful village of sandstone cottages and imposing houses, some clad with ivy.

A lot of the buildings on Main Street are listed, and many are restaurants, pubs and local village shops.

The village has been here since the 11th century, and ever-present throughout this time has been the Holy Trinity Church, now in an arresting state of semi -ruin.

But the headline attraction is the jaw-dropping Wentworth Woodhouse, a stunning 18th-century country estate that melds English baroque with Palladian design.

You won’t be surprised to hear that a host of period TV shows and films have been shot in this noble setting.

7. Cawthorne

Cawthorne has all the essentials of an English rural village, with a pretty medieval church, a pub tea room and manor house.

The local stately home, Cannon Hall is a gorgeous Georgian pile that wouldn’t look out of place in a Jane Austen period drama.

In the ballroom, dining room, library and drawing room there’s sumptuous period furniture by some of the 18th-century’s most lauded craftsmen like Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite.

Bring the kids to Cannon Hall farm where you can watch state-of-the art farming machinery at work, and see tractors trundling around like any other day.

The best time to visit is in spring when hundreds of baby animals are born, and you’ll get to see Shetland pony and donkey foals, as well as piglets and lambs.

8. Woodlands

Preserved as a conservation area just north of Doncaster, Woodlands is a model village, built at the turn of the century  for miners at Brodsworth Colliery.

The Model Village Movement came about at the end of the 19th century, as industrialists realised the benefit of giving their workforce more desirable places to live.

At Woodlands there’s generous green in six hectares hemmed by some 120 houses.

These were devised to face the greenery rather than other houses as they would a typical industrial residential street.

9. Sprotbrough and Cusworth

This parish a short way west of Doncaster has three individual villages and some pristine expanses of countryside to recharge those batteries.

The Spotbrough Flash is a soothing patchwork of wetland, meadows and ash and sycamore woods on a limestone ridge.

In grassy areas there’s a sea of wildflowers like cowslips and orchids in summer.

The grounds of Cusworth Hall are dreamy too, with a serpentine lake with ducks and a glorious Georgian mansion at the top of the rise, designed by James Paine, one of the country’s foremost architects of the day.

The interior is a museum that shows how Doncastrians, rich and not so rich, lived in days gone by.

10. High Bradfield

This endearing little village is set within the boundary of the Peak District, in hilly scenery with vistas over the Bradfield Dale to the Derwent Edge escarpment and a massive sweep of the Dark Peak.

Nestling in pasture for sheep grazing, it’s a given that High Bradfield should be fine walking territory, and there’s some fascinating stuff to discover minutes on foot from the village.

One is Bailey Hill, which has all the signs of a Normal motte and bailey fortress, while Castle Hill was once a Saxon camp.

In the village, the Church of St Nicholas is one of a select few Grade I-listed buildings in the Sheffield region.

It takes full advantage of the majestic location and has a Saxon cross in its nave from the year 800.

11. Penistone

The likeable market town of Penistone is the highest in Yorkshire, at over 220 metres.

Here on the western side of the county, at the edge of the Pennines, the countryside starts to get dramatic.

There are five superb local walks starting in Penistone, entering a landscape of arable farms and pasture grazed by the hardy whitefaced woodland sheep.

And there will always be a pub close by for a meal or leisurely pint.

For people in need of outdoor seclusion you have the empty moorland around the Langsett Reservoir where you could stroll for hours and hardly meet a soul.

In the town see the Church of St John the Baptist, with a 16th-century tower and a nave and chancel that could be as old as the 11th century.

12. Elsecar

In rolling countryside between Rotherham and Barnsley, the village of Elsecar witnessed coal-mining activity from the 15th century to the 1980s.

Despite and maybe because of that history Elsecar has a lot of personality, on streets with old stone cottages and the converted vestiges of the mines’ outbuildings and iron forges.

At the Elsecar Heritage Centre are restored cobblestone streets and workshops that still have machinery to keep industrial historians riveted: The 18th-century Newcomen Beam Engine dates to 1795 and was designed to extract water from coal pits to allow for deeper exploration.

You could linger at the heritage centre for a good while, pottering around the sweet independent shops and taking a ride on the mile-long Elsecar Heritage Railway.

13. Worsbrough

A diffuse cluster of villages in dramatic countryside, Worsbrough has been settled since the 600s and was mentioned in the Domesday Book in the 11th century.

Worsbrough Mill on the River Dove is a working flour mill that still has both its water-powered mechanism that goes back to the 1600s and its 19th-century steam apparatus.

As well as offering a couple of hours of edification, the location is fabulous, within the 100-hectare Worsbrough Country Park.

Following the course of the former railway line through Worsbrough is a length of the Trans Pennine Trail, which spans both coasts in northern England.

Pause a moment at the 12th-century Church of St Mary, which has a mass grave for the 75 victims of the Darley Main Colliery disaster in 1849.

14. High Hoyland

A destination for a whirlwind visit, but one you’re sure to recall fondly, High Hoyland is a tiny hillside village northwest of Barnsley.

You’ll know why you came when you’re sitting in front of the Cherry Tree Inn and staring dumbstruck at the views down to Cannon Hall and then Barnsley in the distance.

You can park up and join a footpath to spend a little more time in this wonderful setting; there’s a old bridleway that runs along the ridge above the village.

Just up the road from High Hoyland is the Yorkshire Sculpture Park with works by Barbara Hepworth and one of the largest sets of Henry Moore’s bronzes anywhere.

The market town of Thorne has a few interesting stories to tell and some rare wilderness to navigate.

Thorne was a marshy region until the Dutchman Cornelius Vermuyden helped create polders (reclaimed farmland) in the 1600s by plotting a system of dykes.

You can see how the landscape once looked at the Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve, more than 2,800 hectares of bogs and woods supporting more than 5,000 plant and animal species.

Birds like ringed plovers, lapwings and oystercatchers are all to be seen and heard in summer.

Inside Thorne, stretch your legs on the tow path of the Stainforth and Keadby canal and bring the little guys to the miniature that runs in summer at Thorne Park.

15 Best Places to Visit in South Yorkshire:

• Peak District
• Sprotbrough and Cusworth
• High Bradfield
• High Hoyland

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Two women who filmed themselves torturing and kicking their elderly neighbour because they believed he was a paedophile have been jailed.

Zoe Rider, 36, and Nicola Lethbridge, 45, carried out the ‘sadistic’ attack against Stephen Koszyczarski, 60, at his home in Sheffield, on August 9 last year.

Footage was played during the opening of the trial at Sheffield Crown Court where Rider and Lethbridge can be heard hurling abuse at Mr Koszyczarski.

One said: ‘Dirty, f****** wrong ‘un…Having his f****** balls cut off. Where’s the knife, where’s the scissors gone? Little f****** n***e that abusing little girls aren’t you Steve?’

Another could then be heard to say: ‘Aren’t you Steve?’ While the other added: ‘Not even denying it you f****** c***.’

As the footage played, one of the defendants could be heard saying: ‘Wipe your f****** face.’ Mr Koszyczarski replied: ‘I can’t stop bleeding.’ One woman then said: “Do you think I give a f***?’

The women had no evidence Mr Koszyczarski was a paedophile and South Yorkshire Police uncovered no wrongdoing.

Prosecutor Andrew O’Byrne KC said Mr Koszyczarski lived alone and was described as a ‘collector’.

He went to a cafe on the day of his murder and the cafe owner said she was concerned because he was short of money so she gave him £55.

Mr O’Byrne said: ‘During the course of the conversation, he complained he wasn’t getting much sleep because people in his block were making a lot of noise and disturbing him.’

He was captured on CCTV that night but at 11.20pm pressed a button on a lanyard that activated an alarm used for assistance for those with health issues.

Mr O’Byrne said: ‘He spoke to an operator and asked for assistance. He told them he had been attacked and was bleeding.’

Female voices were heard in the background of the call and he was taken to hospital but later died.

A video of the assault was found on the women’s mobile phones as well as Mr Koszyczarski’s blood on the jogging bottoms of one of the women.

Mr Koszyczarski ‘died as a consequence of a sustained and blunt-force physical assault and haemorrhage of the skull’.

He had injuries to his head and neck, bruises to his ear, eyes, cheeks and lips and bruising to his chest that were ‘most likely caused by kicks’.

Lethbridge and Rider were found guilty of murder and robbery and have been remanded in custody and will be sentenced on June 5.

Speaking after the guilty verdicts, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Woodward said: ‘Stephen was described as a quiet man. Although he had a close circle of friends, he kept himself to himself and just went about his business. He didn’t cause any problems or hurt anyone and his death was callous.

‘Lethbridge and Rider had not only subjected Stephen to mental torture and physical abuse but they humiliated him during the attack wrongly accusing him of being a paedophile which was simply not the case.

‘I am pleased with the jury’s verdict and the fact that these two will now spend a significant amount of years in prison.

‘The community has been a huge support throughout our investigation, and I would like to thank those who showed bravery, taking a stand against criminals living in their communities, and providing witness statements and evidence.

‘The support of the public, along with the hardworking officers on my team and police colleagues have ensured justice for Stephen.

‘Although the guilty verdicts bring comfort that justice has been served, this remains a sad day because it is another reminder for everyone how violence can quickly end a life too soon, which impacts greatly on all those involved, and leaves family and friends with pain and holes in their lives.’

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The latest on the massive solar storm

By Angela Fritz, Elise Hammond and Chris Lau, CNN

Incredible lighthouse picture from Maine

From CNN's Chris Lau

Among a flurry of surreal images capturing the dazzling auroras is one taken by Benjamin Williamson of a lighthouse in Portland, Maine.

"It's one of the most incredible things I've ever seen, the awe and wonder," Williamson told CNN.

He said he used a long-exposure technique to snap the shot, but did not edit it.

Watch the full interview with Williamson here .

Things could be about to ramp up

If you still haven't seen the aurora, hold on for another 30 minutes to an hour, according to CNN meteorologist Chad Myers.

The next wave of coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, which cause the aurora, is about to arrive, he said.

"Just wait a minute because things are going to start to ramp up here," he said, adding that the increase could arrive "anytime now." "When it comes, get outside, get ready, put your coat on."

For those who are too busy to witness the phenomenon tonight, Myers said the aurora is expected to last three nights.

Why does the aurora last for a weekend?

By CNN's Chris Lau

Generally, it takes just eight minutes for light to travel 93 million miles to the Earth from the sun, but astrophysicist Janna Levin said the energized particles causing the current wave of aurora travel a lot slower, causing the phenomenon to last for the weekend.

"Some of these mass ejections are trillions of kilograms," she said. "They're slower. So they're taking longer, but still hours, maybe tens of hours."

Here's how the solar storm looks in the South and on the East Coast

The aurora was visible across the East Coast and in the South Friday.

Here's how it looked in Chester, South Carolina.

Down in Florida, waves of color swam through the sky.

Up north in New Jersey, a purple-ish haze could be seen in the sky.

Will solar storms get more intense and risky in the future?

The answer is probably not in the short term, according to astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi.

He said scientists study what is constantly happening on the surface of the sun and have found a pattern.

“Geological data shows us that in the past the sun was way more active than it is today. It has cycles where it goes very quiet ... and you have events that show that the solar activity was much, much greater,” he told CNN. “So there's no evidence that we're going to see those big maxima this cycle." 

But the astrophysicist also spoke of a caveat - the limitations of modern science.

“Even though it's predictable in the short term, we still don't quite understand what creates the magnetic fields in the sun,” he said, adding: “That's why NASA has so many satellites looking at the sun.”

In Pictures: Auroras light the sky during rare solar storm

From CNN Digital's Photo Team

A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun are creating dazzling auroras across the globe .

The rare solar storm may also disrupt communications. The last time a solar storm of this magnitude reached Earth was in October 2003, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center.

See more photos of the aurora from tonight.

Behind dazzling aurora could lie “real danger,” Bill Nye the Science Guy says

The massive solar storm could present “a real danger,” especially with the modern world relying so much on electricity, according to Bill Nye the Science Guy , a science educator and engineer.

Scientists are warning an increase in solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun have the potential to disrupt communication on Earth into the weekend. Solar flares can affect communications and GPS almost immediately because they disrupt Earth’s ionosphere, or part of the upper atmosphere. Energetic particles released by the sun can also disrupt electronics on spacecraft and affect astronauts without proper protection within 20 minutes to several hours.

In comparison to tonight's event, Nye drew comparisons with another incident in 1859, known as the Carrington Event, when telegraph communications were severely affected.

“The other thing, everybody, that is a real danger to our technological society, different from 1859, is how much we depend on electricity and our electronics and so on,” Nye said. "None of us really in the developed world could go very long without electricity."

He noted that there are systems in place to minimize the impact, but “stuff might go wrong,” stressing that not all transformers are equipped to withstand such a solar event.

“It depends on the strength of the event and it depends on how much of our infrastructures are prepared for this the sort of thing,” he said.

Bill Nye breaks down significance of the solar storm | CNN

This post has been updated with more details on solar flares' impact on electronics.

Here's where clouds will block the view of the northern lights in the US

From CNN's Angela Fritz

After an incredibly stormy week, most of the Lower 48 has clear skies to see the northern lights. But there are some areas where clouds and rainy weather are spoiling the view.

A deck of clouds is blocking the sky in the Northeast, from parts of Virginia into Maine, as an area of low pressure spins off the East Coast.

In the Midwest, the aurora will be hard to see through thick clouds in parts of Wisconsin, Michigan — including the Upper Peninsula — and Illinois.

A stripe of clouds is tracking across Texas, including Dallas-Forth Worth, and into Louisiana.

And in the Southwest, patchy clouds across the the Four Corners region could make the northern lights difficult to spot.

Aurora seen at least as far south as Georgia

Barely visible to the naked eye, the aurora can be seen in Atlanta in the 10 p.m. ET hour. 

It is easier to see through photographs using a long exposure. The photos below, taken by CNN's Eric Zerkel and Emily Smith, used 3- and 10-second exposures.

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South Africa top court hears case questioning Zuma’s electoral eligibility

Ex-president could be disqualified from running in the most competitive polls in post-apartheid history on May 29.

South Africa’s Constitutional Court will decide on an appeal questioning former President Jacob Zuma’s eligibility to run in this month’s election, a race that could tilt the balance of the parliament and determine the country’s next leader.

The court in Johannesburg is on Friday hearing the appeal filed by the country’s election body after a lower court ruled that Zuma could run for office.

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Earlier, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), barred Zuma from contesting the May 29 polls.

Zuma, 82, is fronting a new opposition party that has become a potential disrupter in the general election.

While his party, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), is not expected to win enough votes to return the former leader to the presidency, it could cut into the vote share of the dominant governing African National Congress (ANC) party, and determine who will be the country’s next leader.

In the South African constitution, the president is elected by members of parliament.

The IEC had argued that the corruption-tainted politician should be barred from the race because of a 2021 contempt of court conviction.

Threat of violence

The eligibility case against Zuma revolves around the interpretation of a constitutional norm barring anyone sentenced to more than 12 months’ imprisonment from serving in parliament.

The ban lapses five years after the sentence is completed.

The IEC argued the provision applies to Zuma. But Zuma’s lawyers said it does not apply to the former leader, because his sentence was shortened.

Now it is up to the Constitutional Court to decide on the case, which experts say could take days.

The top court is the same body that in 2021 sentenced Zuma to 15 months in prison after he refused to testify to a panel investigating financial corruption and cronyism during his presidency. The head of that panel is now the court’s chief justice.

In their filings, Zuma’s lawyers argued that he and another five judges who sat on the bench that convicted their client should recuse themselves as “tainted by bias”.

Were that to happen, the court would not have enough members left to hear the case.

Coming only weeks before what is expected to be the most competitive vote since the advent of democracy in 1994, the case has made some observers nervous.

Zuma’s jailing in 2021 triggered a wave of unrest, riots and looting that left more than 350 people dead.

There are fears, however, of a repeat of the violence, with supporters of the former leader accusing the court of being partisan.

“Zuma’s supporters have threatened violence again this year should things not go their way,” Zakhele Ndlovu, a politics lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, told the AFP news agency.

Aside from the disqualification case, Zuma’s MK party is also under police investigation over allegations that it forged supporters’ signatures to register for the upcoming national elections.