Vol 48 No 22 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Some supporters of ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma Mbeki’s rival for the party presidency mumbled that the report was timed to coincide with the ‘Boks’ victory celebrations...
Jacob Zuma emphasised that he too had been a victim of the media (and the ANC establishment) all along...
The heart of Jacob Zuma’s strategy has been to persuade the media to show ‘overwhelming’ public support for his campaign with almost daily marches and t-shirts with slogans like ‘100 per cent Zuma’ and even ‘100 per cent Zulu’...
Cosatu’s Vavi recently told an ANCYL rally that his re-election would split the tripartite ANC-Cosatu-SACP adding ‘We want Jacob Zuma to lead the ANC as part of a new collective’...
President Thabo Mbeki with the help of his then ally ex-Vice-President Jacob Zuma tried to bring the IFP into coalition with the ANC at provincial and national levels with an eye to an eventual merger...
'NOT RIGHT IN HIS HEAD' Jacob Zuma who presents himself as the guarantor of a new more enlightened and non-racial Zulu nationalism rivals Buthelezi for Zulu authenticity...
Vol 48 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
They look to the former African National Congress Vice-President Jacob Zuma as their preserver...
Vol 48 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Mbeki's fiercest would-be successor the ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma claims that the NPA's investigation of his affairs is part of a political vendetta; Pikoli's suspension helps his cause while making Mbeki look out of touch...
Vol 48 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Insiders say that President Thabo Mbeki is frustrated by the National Prosecuting Authority's inability to make headway in its case against Jacob Zuma...
Vol 48 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
His predecessor Bulelani Ngcuka resigned after pitched battles with African National Congress leaders investigated by the Scorpions; Jacob Zuma still blames him for his current troubles...
Vol 48 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The sacked Vice-President Jacob Zuma and the tycoon Tokyo Sexwale run openly...
The biggest casualty so far has been the former Director of the National Intelligence Agency Billy Masetlha who claims he was fired by President Thabo Mbeki and Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils because he was seen as too close to sacked Vice-President and leadership contender Jacob Zuma...
Mlambo-Ngcuka has rapidly increased her advisors - insiders say she employs more than twice as many as her predecessor Jacob Zuma - and she has appointed several new economists and business executives many of them female perhaps to counter the continuing white male dominance of economic policy-making in South Africa...
Vol 48 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The ANC Youth League (then pro-Mbeki now behind his rival Jacob Zuma) invited Afrikaner youth groups to discuss ways of avoiding discrimination against young white South Africans...