Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

The Gupta business family – brothers Ajay Atul and Rajesh – has been catapulted on to South Africa's front pages since their friend President Jacob Zuma sacked Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene on 9 December...

Jacob Zuma's fourth wife Bongi Ngema-Zuma and her daughter Duduzile Zuma are former Gupta employees...

Delivering the State of the Nation address yesterday at the opening of what promises to be the South African Parliament's most turbulent year President Jacob Zuma announced a series of measures to shore up the country's ailing economy including cutting government expenditure revamping the management of state-owned enterprises and partnering with the private sector to promote domestic and foreign investment...

The measures are high on the wish list of a formerly disengaged business community which was shocked into action by Zuma's disastrous sacking of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene on 9 December and the crash in share prices and the value of the rand that followed (AC Vol 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

The episode hasn't done much for the reputation of PSC Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma ex-wife of South African President Jacob Zuma and a possible candidate to succeed him (see Feature)...

Gordhan was forced on President Jacob Zuma after the debacle that followed his dismissal of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and his appointment of the relative unknown David 'Des' van Rooyen (AC Vol 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

The rand has circulated widely but most merchants are now rejecting it because of its current woes (AC Vol 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

Having promised to 'seize power' in March by seizing six provinces he is now saying he would welcome mediation by South African President Jacob Zuma...

A poor showing by the ANC would have national consequences perhaps encouraging a challenge to President Jacob Zuma whose authority was severely weakened in the last few weeks of economic meltdown in 2015...

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) denied that but worries remain especially since President Jacob Zuma appointed former advisor Vuma Glenton Mashinini to head it...

Although Zuma moved to mitigate the damage caused by sacking Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene by restoring Pravin Gordhan to a job he should perhaps never have been moved from there was lasting damage to the country's reputation and the rand which will be hard to fix (AC Vol 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

The impromptu alliance of African National Congress leaders and business interests which forced President Jacob Zuma to rethink his unilateral decision to sack Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and replace him with a little-known back bencher has opened a new political chapter...

Chronology of a crisis 25 May 2014: President Jacob Zuma makes shock transfer of respected Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan to a lesser portfolio Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs...

She was the youngest Democratic Alliance leader in Parliament and one of the first to question the millions of dollars being spent on President Jacob Zuma's private Nkandla homestead (AC Vol 55 No 6 Nkandla report hurts Zuma)...