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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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Eat the document

Sensational accusations are flying between Pretoria and Luanda as South Africa's presidential race heats up with frontrunners Jacob Zuma and Tokyo Sexwale both accused of interfering in Angolan politics...

The report dated last December says Dos Santos tasked his ex-intelligence chief General Fernando Miala 'with identifying ways in which Angola could provide support to Jacob Zuma and further his presidential aspirations...


Oppositionists and activists struggle to shake out the system

The ANC president is also the country's but although Thabo Mbeki wields enormous influence in the ANC he is not all-powerful there and even less so within the party's partners the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party which hammered him over his handling of the very different Deputy President Jacob Zuma...


First murder, now money

His closest political alliance was with the sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma and his allies in the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)...

The Scorpions an agency independent of the national police would love to bring down Selebi; they have clashed with him over their investigations into Jacob Zuma and his financial advisor Schabir Shaik...


Raining on the parade

Spirits were hardly dampened least of all those of sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma who was given red carpet treatment by Speaker Baleka Mbete of the kind usually accorded to visiting heads of state...


Women in power

She has failed to win the hearts of the public or the ANC while attracting bitter enmity from ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma's supporters - not only for taking his job but also for being married to the head of the National Prosecutions Agency (NPA) Bulelani Ngcuka chief investigator of Zuma's alleged misdeeds...

Her disadvantage is that she used to be married to Jacob Zuma which may be why she turned down Mbeki's initial offer of the vice-presidency after the sacking of her ex-husband...

Jacob Zuma's opponents in the ANC and beyond would be glad to see Dlamini-Zuma in the presidency...

She returned to South Africa in 1990 and was assistant to Jacob Zuma head of the ANC's intelligence division...


Succession sagas

Traditionally the ANC does not tolerate public leadership campaigns but sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma is already on the trail and will be joined by several other senior party figures during the year...


Help, murder, police!

It began when Brett Kebble a mining magnate and fraudster (AC Vol 47 No 22) who has been bankrolling the defence of the sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma was shot dead in his car on 27 September last year...


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