Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

With South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki terminally weakened by the rise of Jacob Zuma there is a gap in regional leadership...

Bitterness has festered within the governing African National Congress since Jacob Zuma took over as party President from national President Thabo Mbeki...

Supporters of Jacob Zuma are determined to push out the remnants of Thabo Mbeki’s followers...

Bulelani Ngcuka South Africa’s former National Public Prosecutor and boss of the Scorpions anti-corruption investigators is the man most hated by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma and his supporters...

He was formerly Chairman of the state’s Central Energy Fund and now heads the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust which is building a war chest for Zuma’s legal defence...

ANC Chairman and presidential hopeful Jacob Zuma was similarly remiss initially sticking with a previous engagement to chat to French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris while the violence was at its worst...

With one bound Jacob Zuma was free...

In South Africa a rift has opened between President Thabo Mbeki with his quiet diplomatic approach and the party's new leader Jacob Zuma whose allies in the trades unions and the South African Communist Party back MDC leader Tsvangirai and refer to Mugabe's government as an illegal regime...

South Africa whose involvement in Burundi diplomacy was led by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma a decade ago wanted to take a hard line against the FNL...

Zwelinzima Vavi a close ally of ANC President Jacob Zuma has been pushing for the South African government to take a tougher line on Mugabe and the disputed elections as well as being openly critical of President Thabo Mbeki’s policy of ‘quiet diplomacy’...

Two days later the President of the African National Congress and close ally of Vavi’s Jacob Zuma said in London that he supports the blocking of the arms shipment but added: ‘I don’t think we have reached the time for an arms embargo...

That is why African National Congress President Jacob Zuma's visit to Dos Santos this week was so important: it had the threefold effect of undermining Mbeki boosting Zuma's status as a foreign policy fixer within Southern Africa and keeping a channel open to Mugabe if trouble starts after the election...

Mbeki's rival Jacob Zuma the ANC's new leader is trying to take control of Africa policy...