Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

President Jacob Zuma faced unprecedented personal criticism and ridicule because of the shooting of mineworkers in Marikana in August 2012 the attempted suborning of independent institutions US$22 million in state spending on his Nkandla homestead and his close ties with the multi-millionaire Gupta family (AC Vol 55 No 9 Politics and Pistorius in the dock)...

That would be enough to save President Jacob Zuma from an immediate party rebellion so now the arguments are about whether the party will drive him from the presidency before the end of his second term...

The former wife of President Jacob Zuma went to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre of Gisozi where 250 000 victims are buried...

2 million members – will be split between one faction that supports President Jacob Zuma and the African National Congress and another that backs a radical alternative to the ANC...

The run-up to the summit was marked by debate over which presidents were not coming such as South Africa's Jacob Zuma Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe (enraged that his wife Grace Mugabe was denied an invitation) and invalids such as Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

During President Jacob Zuma's state visit to Kinshasa last October the two Presidents signed an agreement on Inga governing the electricity trade between their countries...

The findings of an official investigation that President Jacob Zuma personally benefited from the multi-million dollar refurbishment of his Nkandla homestead will weaken his position and cost the governing African National Congress votes in the general elections on 7 May...

That is because of the vetting power of the ANC and national President Jacob Zuma who is of course first on the list: proven loyalists have been promoted; dissidents or those of suspect loyalty have been pushed down the list or excluded...

Below 60% would be a serious blow for President Jacob Zuma and could spark a challenge within the party...

Just how important the cost of Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead has become for his presidency and the elections was clear from the way it dominated a private meeting at South Africa House in London on 1 March just before the former President Nelson Mandela's memorial service...