Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

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...

The clean-outs are reciprocal among both opponents and supporters of President Jacob Zuma’s bid for a second term as ANC leader and as President (AC Vol 52 No 18 Disrespect for the President & AC Vol 52 No 19 The fight of the century)...

The controversy is providing ample ammunition for President Jacob Zuma’s enemies in a domestic political arena that is rapidly heating up (see Feature Malema and Zuma mass their armies)...

Although the African Union condemned Gbagbo’s refusal to leave power after the election results Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos and South African President Jacob Zuma were his strongest defenders in the AU panel on the Ivorian crisis where they frequently clashed with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré (AC Vol 52 No 4 Democracy standoff and The financial sanctions tighten)...

President Jacob Zuma’s mid-September decision to form a commission of inquiry into the controversial arms deal of the late 1990s is being widely seen as an attempt to forestall the judicial inquiry that the African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema and many others are demanding...

South African President Jacob Zuma’s determination to see a draft deal agreed has helped to nudge Ravalomanana towards acceptance...

On both issues South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma and his Ambassador the UN have been trying to rally the African troops...

True to form President Jacob Zuma acted decisively only when his personal position as leader of the African National Congress came under threat...

Characteristically President Jacob Zuma keeps quiet about what he thinks while his business baron friends are against it...

President Jacob Zuma’s foreign policy his critics at home say is just like his domestic policy: he sits on the fence hoping to please everyone and in the end paralysis follows...