Vol 47 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The African National Congress Provincial Conferences will be fiercely lobbied by Jacob Zuma's and Thabo Mbeki's camps...
Vol 47 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The invective between supporters of Mbeki and his sacked deputy Jacob Zuma is highly personal and African National Congress officials worry that it is taking on an ethnic slant as well...
Vol 47 No 14 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
Wen knows personally the Deputy President of SA's governing African National Congress Jacob Zuma while President Hu Jintao and SA President Thabo Mbeki have known each other since they were their countries' deputy leaders...
Vol 47 No 12 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
In the interval between his acquittal on rape charges and his trial for corruption Jacob Zuma is working hard on his political career (AC Vol 47 No 10)...
President Thabo Mbeki had previously deployed the then Deputy President Jacob Zuma since sacked...
Vol 47 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Jacob Zuma began his political fight-back as soon as he left the Johannesburg High Court on 8 May after his acquittal on charges of rape (AC Vol 47 No 9)...
The finding in late March of the Inspector General of Intelligence Zolile Ngcakani that the sacked National Intelligence Agency Director-General (and Zuma ally) Billy Masetlha had paid a consultant to fabricate the e-mails is hotly disputed on the 'Friends of Jacob Zuma' website and by many within the ANC including Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe...
Vol 47 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The many misfortunes of Jacob Zuma self-inflicted or otherwise have elevated Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (AC Vol 47 No 6)...
Mbeki's first choice as his successor was Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Jacob Zuma's ex-wife...
Mbeki flagged her candidacy a month after he began his presidency in 1999 having appointed Jacob Zuma as his deputy...
Jacob Zuma goes for broke Zuma's presidential ambitions were helped from the start by left-wingers in Cosatu and the SACP who thought Mbeki insufficiently radical...
Vol 47 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
In the middle of a politically damaging rape trial and facing another on corruption charges in July Jacob Zuma finds his finances under heavy pressure...
Don Mkhwanazi is a leading KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) businessman and chairs the board of the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust...
Mkhwanazi was previously involved in the Jacob Zuma RDP Education Trust...
Masethla and former Deputy President Jacob Zuma are close allies and were uneasy about Kroll's close relationship with former Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka and President Thabo Mbeki...
Vol 47 No 6 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Accusing some government officials of trying to destroy him over the past five years besieged former Deputy President Jacob Zuma told Africa Confidential that he had a duty to fight the rape and corruption charges against him to prove that 'the system must work'...