Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

Sihle Zikalala a close ally of President Jacob Zuma and the governing party's Treasurer General has won the coveted position of Provincial Chairman of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) the ANC's largest province by membership in a tough fight at the party's provincial elective conference this week in Pietermaritzburg...

Motsoeneng's role as a supporter of President Jacob Zuma and a recipient of patronage is not unusual nor is his status as a political football...

Zuma messageKabila took some comfort from the soft message brought by South African President Jacob Zuma when he travelled to Kinshasa in mid-October...

It may have ended with a stirring rendition of the liberation struggle song Mhla Sibuyayo (The Day We Return) led by President Jacob Zuma but the governing African National Congress's three-day policy meeting had to confront some harsh truths about the ANC's standing in the country and the rivalries in its ranks...

President Mbeki soon found himself substituted as ANC President by Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 48 No 25 'Unstoppable tsunami')...

One idea under consideration is that Jacob Zuma would continue as ANC President with his ex-wife Dlamini-Zuma as national President in 2019...

The newspaper Pretoria News last week argued that President Jacob Zuma's government was stoking up so much anger about the ICC that it was ignoring the plight of the Sudanese people: 'We have been so caught up in trying to teach the West a lesson about its double standards that we forgot the burnt villages that litter Darfur and the Nuba mountains and the countless women who continue to be raped by Sudanese government forces'...

The League's National Executive Committee was disbanded in 2013 after its then President Julius Malema was expelled for challenging President Jacob Zuma...

Cyril Ramaphosa's campaign to succeed President Jacob Zuma suffered a massive blow when the African National Congress Women's League declared that a woman should be the party's next presidential candidate...

The nascent campaign behind Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has the support not only of the African National Congress Women's League and other elements of President Jacob Zuma's camp but also of several ANC provincial leaders...

The leaders of this movement are the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) Cosatu's largest affiliate under General Secretary Irvin Jim and Zwelinzima Vavi the Cosatu General Secretary expelled largely for his strong opposition to President Jacob Zuma...