Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

In November President Jacob Zuma hosted a dinner for all seven ANC presidential hopefuls at an occasion dubbed 'the Last Supper'...

An ANC strongman and former miner who is charged with holding the party together Mantashe faces a plot by leaders of the Dlamini-Zuma camp under her ex-husband President Jacob Zuma to weaken or oust him by appointing a partisan 'task group' to determine his future...

SACP leaders think Ramaphosa commands widespread support among ANC members but fear he could still be denied the ANC Presidency through delegate manipulation vote-buying and membership inflation by supporters of President Jacob Zuma who is agitating to secure the succession for his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (AC Vol 58 No 13 Factional fireworks threaten party)...

HSBC one of Britain's biggest banks has been accused by a British peer of complicity in a US$500 million money-laundering scheme organised by businesses controlled by the Gupta family close allies of President Jacob Zuma...

Taking a high-stakes gamble ahead of the leadership elections in December President Jacob Zuma has broken with the African National Congress's traditional allies in the Communist Party and the trade union movement to promote his own acolytes in a surprise reshuffle on 17 October...

The rare intervention followed the KPMG finding – in an internal investigation last month – that the firm's dealings with three Indian brothers who are close friends of President Jacob Zuma 'fell considerably short' of its own standards (AC Vol 58 No 19 KPMG feels the Gupta heat)...

The firm also disowned a confidential report they prepared for the South African Revenue Services (SARS) in 2014 which stated that former finance minister Pravin Gordhan knew or ought to have known that a rogue investigations unit within the agency was spying on President Jacob Zuma and his allies (AC Vol 55 No 23 Hard times for the revenue service)...

The ruling effectively disbanded the provincial structure led by chairman Sihle Zikalala a close ally of President Jacob Zuma...

Patrice Motsepe holds no political office but he and his family have enormous influence in the ANC (AC Vol 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

Twenty minutes after Speaker Baleka Mbete had announced on 8 August that the President had survived yet another confidence vote a beaming Jacob Zuma surrounded by bodyguards swept into the parliamentary precinct in Cape Town...