Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

The arms manufacturer Thales was alleged in court to have paid 500 000 rand (then $100 000) to Jacob Zuma (now President) during a multibillion dollar deal in 1999...

The standard criticism of Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma was that he was a populist seeking the presidency mainly to protect himself against prosecution for corrupt enrichment in South Africa's US$6 billion arms deal (AC Vol 49 No 16)...

Free State Premier Ace Magashule recently told a meeting in his province that 'Jacob Zuma is like Chris Hani...

Jacob Zuma is like Oliver Tambo...

Jacob Zuma rarely hides his distaste of journalists - particularly those who ridiculed his presidential ambitions and his political commitment - and his supporters rail against media enemies who portrayed him as a populist buffoon...

Pictures of police firing rubber bullets into a crowd of protestors in Thokoza township on 27 July gave President Jacob Zuma's three-month-old government its strongest reality check to date...

Omer helped by Gadaffi and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak (both of whose regimes are threatened by Khartoum's Islamist allies) is trying to ignore the ICC warrant although this week he cancelled a trip to Uganda after a Foreign Ministry official in Kampala suggested he would be arrested; Omer failed to attend South African President Jacob Zuma's inauguration for the same reason...

New Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson (see Box) has also been talking about stronger engagement with South Africa under the new government of Jacob Zuma...

Secondly President Jacob Zuma's new government is under pressure from its left-wing allies in the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party to limit Anglo's commercial freedom - or even to nationalise it...

Many supported Jacob Zuma and donated to both his and the African National Congress's election campaigns...

The appointment of the inexperienced Maite Nkoana-Mashabane as Foreign Minister in the new African National Congress (ANC) government suggests that President Jacob Zuma will dominate foreign policy with his strong economic team of Planning Minister Trevor Manuel and Trade Minister Rob Davie (AC Vol 50 Nos 11 & 12)...

Angola will welcome Jacob Zuma on his first foreign trip as President 'before Christmas'...