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Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

Date of Birth: 12 April 1942
Place of Birth: Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Province


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Lords of misrule

Members of the Communauté économique des états de l’Afrique centrale (CEEAC) met South African President Jacob Zuma and observers from other countries on 3 April for exchanges that were often heated...


ANC wields the long knives

President Jacob Zuma and his allies have begun their long-awaited purge of trades unionists party members and government officials judged to have opposed him at the African National Congress conference in Mangaung in December...


Blade's think-tank regiment

Appointing so staunch an ally would consolidate President Jacob Zuma’s power in an area of government he increasingly sees as his own...


South African troops under fire

The former Prime Minister and leader of the Mouvement de libération du peuple centrafricain Martin Ziguélé told Radio France Internationale on 26 March that he believed South African President Jacob Zuma has been ‘dragged along into this wasps’ nest mostly by South African businessmen’ interested in mining but that it was a trap...


Guns, jobs and strikes

President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town on 14 February was drowned out by news of the arrest of Olympic champion Oscar Pistorius earlier that day on a murder charge...


The left-right clash on economics

The National Development Plan is ‘a road map to a South Africa where all will have water electricity sanitation jobs housing public transport adequate nutrition education social protection quality healthcare recreation and a clean environment ’ President Jacob Zuma proudly announced on 14 February...


BRICS tug-of-war

Under President Jacob Zuma’s rule the Development Bank of Southern Africa which reports to the Treasury is increasingly involved in policy-making and as its Governor Gordhan has been key to writing BRICS strategy...


Piecemeal deal

Doubts may abound but none were visible in Addis Ababa as South African President Jacob Zuma and his ex-wife and African Union Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma invoked the spirit of the Father of the Congolese nation Patrice Lumumba...


Swearing deputies

He agreed to become President Jacob Zuma’s deputy on the understanding that he would help usher him into the presidency (AC Vol 54 No 2 Ramaphosa's price)...


The power of the south

Even her former husband South African President Jacob Zuma praised French President François Hollande’s efforts to consult African leaders before launching the Mali operation...


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