Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

A faction in the KwaZulu-Natal party where loyalists to ex-President Jacob Zuma wield considerable power and have perhaps the most to lose from restrictions on patronage intends to move the motion from the conference floor Africa Confidential understands (AC Vol 60 No 21 'Dump Cyril' move in KZN)...

It would mean Moody's joining S & P Global and Fitch which cut South Africa's rating to sub-investment level in 2017 when the country was consumed by the latest round of corruption scandals under President Jacob Zuma...

80 for nuclear energy the favoured option of former President Jacob Zuma...

Cyril Ramaphosa's supporters have claimed that the broadcast of the wrong version of the President's recent address to the nation was 'deliberate sabotage' by supporters and appointees in the South African Broadcasting Corporation of former President Jacob Zuma and African National Congress Secretary General Ace Magashule...

Eskom which supplies 95% of the country's electricity was at the centre of massive corruption during Jacob Zuma's presidency...

It includes the Jacob Zuma-supporting former minister Lynne Brown Ramaphosa-supporter and former ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool and provincial treasurer  Maurencia Gillion who is an ally of Magashule's...

By a quirk of history it fell to Ace Magashule Secretary General of the African National Congress and leading beneficiary of Jacob Zuma's leadership to deliver the most damning report on the state of the party in its history...

After the latest round of proxy battles President Cyril Ramaphosa is marginally ahead of his predecessor Jacob Zuma but his supporters warn that his opponents still control too many levers in the African National Congress...

The African National Congress breathed a collective sigh of relief – party insiders said – when the questioning of former President Jacob Zuma who is facing multiple corruption allegations was halted after he reached a behind-the-scenes deal with the presiding judge...

Tactics similar to those used to remove former President Thabo Mbeki before the end of his second term and are now being deployed behind the scenes by a committed group of senior ANC officials loyal to discredited former President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 60 No 12 A tale of two ANCs)...