Former South African president Jacob Zuma has accused his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, of contempt of court for failing to appear in court in a case brought by Zuma himself against the current president.

The former president of South Africa has decided to file a lawsuit against South Africa's current head of state, Cyril Ramaphosa, for failing to react to alleged misconduct by public prosecutor Billy Downer.

The magistrate, according to Zuma, is said to have tried to dismiss a court case about bribery and alleged public corruption in South Africa's arms purchases.

According to the South African press, former President Zuma's private lawsuit against Ramaphosa has been postponed by the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg until August 6.

In the view of the 81-year-old former President Zuma, who ruled South Africa between 2009 and 2018, the leadership of his successor "is a problem" for the country.

He also says that he recently dissociated himself from the former African nationalist movement, ANC, in which he had been a militant since the 1960s, and created the political formation Mkhonto weSizwe (MKP) in order, he says, to save the nation from Ramaphosa's ANC.