Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

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...

Maite Nkoana-Mashabane International Relations and Cooperation Minister: a former High Commissioner to India and Malaysia she was a leading activist in Limpopo Province backing Jacob Zuma against Thabo Mbeki for the presidency; her profile is rising in the African National Congress (ANC) party and internationally...

Zulu is South African President Jacob Zuma’s international affairs advisor seconded to bolster the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic) which is meant to check that the power-sharing government of ZANU-PF and MDC keeps to the agreement both signed in 2009 (AC Vol 52 No 12 and Vol 50 No 4)...

Others who put on the pressure included Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Premier Raila Odinga who each brought delegations of 50 or so Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who brought what a witness described as ‘an outrageous convoy including a private ambulance that looked armoured’ and South African President Jacob Zuma whose armoured personnel carriers had to be moved on by the SPLA because they were blocking the way for everybody else...

Accusations of corruption against police chiefs plans for state interference with the media and innuendo about politicians compromised by business associates – British Prime Minister David Cameron and South African President Jacob Zuma seemed to have enough in common during their smiling encounter in Tshwane on 18 July...

South African President Jacob Zuma’s intervention on behalf of the African Union was seen as ineffective but South Africa could yet play a role in an AU-negotiated settlement if such a thing is possible...

President Jacob Zuma's intention to stand for a second presidential term next year has divided the ramshackle coalition which controls the governing African National Congress...

The security forces have gained extra powers under President Jacob Zuma and some fear that these could be used to curb political opposition...

Veterans of the African National Congress’s former military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) helped Jacob Zuma to get elected ANC leader in 2007 and he wants their support again for a second term...