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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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Zuma sweeps the boards

President Jacob Zuma is tightening his grip on state-owned enterprises and purging boards and executives...


Zuma or else

The re-election of President Jacob Zuma as African National Congress (ANC) President is an ‘unstoppable tsunami’ say his backers yet many members of his original coalition of trades unionists and radicals now vehemently oppose him...


Undiplomatic corps

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


Three men in a boat

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...


Zuma’s campaign pays off

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)...


Winning them over one by one

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...


Zuma hits back as mining unrest spreads

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...


Disunited unions

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...


A sickly constitution

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)...


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