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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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The business of politics

The presence of Ramos and Marcus at the NEC meeting follows sharp criticism by its dominant faction which supports party President Jacob Zuma of companies which back either the pro-Thabo Mbeki faction or the new breakaway party led by Mosiuoa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa...

Vavi of Cosatu has said 'people should stop putting pressure on Jacob Zuma not to make any leftward economic policy 'shifts'...


Squaring the circle

As banks collapsed and great industrial firms were threatened with closure Jacob Zuma the African National Congress President and probably the next President of South Africa struggled to attract a high-level audience...


The Left's alternative economics

The Congress of South African Trade Unions and South African Communist Party are enraged by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma's statements on economic policy continuity...


On the verge of a nervous breakdown

Three factions are now vying for power in the African National Congress: the dominant group led by ANC President Jacob Zuma which controls the National Executive Committee (NEC) the trades unions the Youth League and the intelligence groups; their immediate rivals who remain loyal to ousted national President Thabo Mbeki; and a third group led by Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota...


All politics is provincial

All the African National Congress’s provincial branches are internally divided between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma supporters...


The breakaways

Mbeki thwarted his bid to challenge his then ally Jacob Zuma for the ANC deputy presidency in 2002...


A wounded presidency

’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu who has called ANC President Jacob Zuma an embarrassment said: ‘Many people would not be too embarrassed to have [Motlanthe] as head of state...


'Elder brother' Motlanthe

Throughout the battle between Mbeki and Jacob Zuma he has positioned himself as the one to which both sides can turn...


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