Vol 58 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
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...
Vol 58 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
As South Africa's political crisis deepens ahead of the no-confidence motion vote aimed at ousting President Jacob Zuma on 8 August a broad front of civil society organisations is poised to bring hundreds of thousands of people on to the streets to demand that Zuma step down...
In a Policy Discussion Document published in early June South Africa's ruling African National Congress urged President Jacob Zuma's government to preserve AGOA but said it would adopt a 'wait-and-see approach' until Washington offered more detail on its African trade policy...
Vol 58 No 14 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Ramaphosa needs to integrate powerful competing factional interests and persuade other ANC presidential contenders to throw in their lot with him if they are to beat Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma President Jacob Zuma's former wife and his chosen candidate to succeed him as party leader (AC Vol 58 No 1 Power struggle goes nuclear)...
Vol 58 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Ministers and President Jacob Zuma's own Chief Operations Officer Lakela Kaunda have authenticated the accounts of their meetings and business dealings with the Guptas which are mentioned in the emails...
What emerges from the leaked Gupta email cache is a system whereby the Guptas – through befriending Jacob Zuma's son Duduzane – have obtained influence with a series of party officials who once appointed to the cabinet on their recommendation have then directly chosen and appointed senior ministerial advisors...
President Jacob Zuma and his allies are widely seen as responsible for the fraudulent inflation of ANC numbers in the province to ensure the election of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to the presidency at December's national conference (AC Vol 58 No 8 New script in KwaZulu-Natal)...
Vol 58 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The implacable enmity between Malema and President Jacob Zuma is an immediate obstacle but Dlamini-Zuma's camp is thinking about a deal after both men have ceased to lead their parties we hear...
Vol 58 No 12 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
For much of that period President Jacob Zuma had been indirectly attacking the then Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's efforts to cut corruption and rein in state spending on mismanaged projects...
Vol 58 No 12 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Nothing seems to stick to South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and the more he is attacked the more powerfully he bounces back albeit at the expense of his rapidly waning credibility...
Vol 58 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The embattled African National Congress is rapidly running out of money as funders desert the party because of the increasingly erratic behaviour of its leader President Jacob Zuma...
Vol 58 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Jacob Zuma has been trying to undermine his critics by claiming that all public attacks on his actions – whether in the media from opposition parties or within the governing African National Congress (ANC) – are orchestrated by 'white monopoly capital'...
Or does it take President Jacob Zuma at his word and embrace his promise of 'radical economic transformation' its own declared goal...
Its leader Julius Malema's solution to the political conundrum is to promise to join forces with the ANC but only if it drops Zuma and its name (AC Vol 58 No 4 The state of Jacob Zuma's presidency )...