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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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FOCAC V brings billions more

Foreign and finance ministers from more than 50 African countries attended but only a handful of heads of state and government were present notably South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga...


South Africa looks east

President Jacob Zuma has already conceded that the continuing debt crisis in the Eurozone is likely to make it impossible for South Africa to achieve the kind of growth rates needed to reach its job-creation and poverty-reduction targets...


Partnerships, promises and failures

Despite the billions of dollars in investment that President Jacob Zuma’s ‘Look East’ policy could potentially deliver Asian investment in South Africa has already yielded many promises few strategic partnerships and some notable failures...


The year of the dragon, again

President Jacob Zuma will find it difficult to balance relations with China with the demands of domestic politics...

It was a shrewd move: Shanduka’s Executive Chairman Cyril Ramaphosa a prominent industrialist with impeccable political credentials is a possible successor to President Jacob Zuma...


Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Erdogan was in South Africa in October for talks with President Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe...


High unit costs

The police Special Investigations Unit which will gather evidence for President Jacob Zuma's new board of inquiry into the 1999 multibillion-rand arms deal may now produce results more pleasing to the President after a change at the top...


Selling the state

To coordinate policy on the state companies President Jacob Zuma launched the Presidential Review Committee in 2009 to examine ways to restructure or sell some of the major state companies...


The Gordhan knot

Typically President Jacob Zuma allows all the faction-fighters to believe he backs them so the disputes rumble on...


The gloves are off

Leaning on powerful backers with their own agenda like Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale and Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula he will deploy street protests activist demonstrations and heckling in imitation of the tactics that Jacob Zuma used so successfully to dislodge Thabo Mbeki from the ANC presidency...


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