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Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

Date of Birth: 12 April 1942
Place of Birth: Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Province


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Zuma, Buthelezi and the Zulu nation

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...


Exit Pikoli, Chief Prosecutor

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...


Zuma in the sights

Insiders say that President Thabo Mbeki is frustrated by the National Prosecuting Authority's inability to make headway in its case against Jacob Zuma...


Intelligence in a divided house

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...


No holds barred

The sacked Vice-President Jacob Zuma and the tycoon Tokyo Sexwale run openly...


The banishing of Billy

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...


Putting the country to work

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...


The race to win

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...


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