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Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

Date of Birth: 12 April 1942
Place of Birth: Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Province


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Higher taxes, less nationalisation

Malema and the ANCYL have failed to force President Jacob Zuma and the other candidates for the party presidency to promise support for nationalisation in return for the League’s support...


Mswati’s private party

’ Backdoor loan from Zuma The government is playing down the IMF withdrawal – Government Spokesman Simelane said he had not even heard about it – and the government is pinning its hopes on another SACU windfall which some cynics have read as a backdoor loan from South Africa: President Jacob Zuma is close to Mswati...


The new Thabo Mbeki

This year’s annual Thabo Mbeki Lecture was due to be given by Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi but he pulled out because President Jacob Zuma was opening a global African diaspora summit at the same time and Meles did not want to upset Zuma by turning up for an Mbeki event...


The leadership race opens up

For months the main contest was between national President Jacob Zuma who seeks re-election as ANC President and the party’s Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe...


Police and thieves

President Jacob Zuma’s allies are trying to arrange the state security and financial apparatus to protect him from future prosecution...


An imported ally

Patel seems to be winning; he has the ear of President Jacob Zuma on economic policy and is busily undermining Manuel’s NPC (AC Vol 52 No 24 Selling the state & The Gordhan knot)...


Entente absente

Gabon’s President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba told Africa Confidential that his offer of a face-to-face meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma had been rejected...

Jacob Zuma rejected Gabon’s proposal that both candidates – Jean Ping the incumbent and Libreville’s candidate and South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma – withdraw...


Charity ends at home

) to a festival run by the National Youth Development Agency which is dominated by ANC Youth League leaders and supported President Jacob Zuma’s campaign to oust ex-President Thabo Mbeki...


Zuma battles Juju

President Jacob Zuma is struggling to carry fellow leaders of the African National Congress with him in his campaign against dissident ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema...


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