Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

The ballot is secret which encourages factions opposing President Jacob Zuma...

So far President Jacob Zuma has met both and characteristically agreed with both we hear...

SADC may protest but with South African President Jacob Zuma absorbed by his domestic political problems until late December it would be strictly for show...

African National Congress leaders are trying to stitch together a deal that would avoid a contest for the party Presidency between incumbent Jacob Zuma and Vice-President Kgalema Motlanthe at the party’s conference on 16-20 December in Mangaung (Bloemfontein)...

The plan to secure President Jacob Zuma certain victory at the African National Congress’s leadership election focuses on one-to-one meetings with his main opponents...

A rousing welcome at a national trades union conference and a belated wage deal at the Marikana platinum mines are the first signs that President Jacob Zuma is fighting back...

A political fix negotiated on 16 September allowed the leaders of the Congress of South African Trade Unions to paper over their differences as Secretary General Zwelinzima Vavi agreed to tone down a critical speech about President Jacob Zuma’s government the following day...

Emergency meetings often lasted into the early hours and revision was complete just before South African President Jacob Zuma arrived in Harare en route to the Maputo SADC summit on 17-18 August (AC Vol 53 No 17 Mugabe's Maputo success)...

Senior politicians not least of all President Jacob Zuma are failing to deflect public anger about the massacre of 34 miners by police on 16 August at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in Rustenburg...

Jacob Zuma’s bid for re-election as President of the governing African National Congress at the crucial Mangaung congress in December could be another casualty of the tragedy...

He is now an ally of President Jacob Zuma and running on his electoral slate for December’s ANC Congress at Mangaung...