Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

The next test for Cyril Ramaphosa elected president of the African National Congress on 18 December is to engineer the departure of his predecessor Jacob Zuma from the national presidency before the opening of Parliament on 8 February...

Ramaphosa's team of rivals Even if his efforts to drive Jacob Zuma from the national presidency are successful the African National Congress's new leader Cyril Ramaphosa will have to consult widely and make big compromises to form a new government...

The conference may end up like the ANC's recent Eastern Cape provincial elective conference where delegates supporting the competing factions came to blows or like the disputed KwaZulu-Natal ANC provincial conference where allies of President Jacob Zuma were accused of artificially bumping up pro-Zuma branch delegate numbers and excluding pro-Ramaphosa branches (AC Vol 58 No 24 The countdown begins)...

The king sat down in Abidjan with South African President Jacob Zuma in a move interpreted by Rabat as beginning to wean away one of the Polisario Front's and Algeria's most robust long-term supporters...

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)...