Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

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...

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...

He had especially strong ties to sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma and the ANC Youth League pronouncing himself a strong supporter of black empowerment...

Even the most conservative African National Congress activists admit that a schism has developed in the party between supporters of President Thabo Mbeki and those of sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma...

The African National Congress Provincial Conferences will be fiercely lobbied by Jacob Zuma's and Thabo Mbeki's camps...

The invective between supporters of Mbeki and his sacked deputy Jacob Zuma is highly personal and African National Congress officials worry that it is taking on an ethnic slant as well...

Wen knows personally the Deputy President of SA's governing African National Congress Jacob Zuma while President Hu Jintao and SA President Thabo Mbeki have known each other since they were their countries' deputy leaders...

In the interval between his acquittal on rape charges and his trial for corruption Jacob Zuma is working hard on his political career (AC Vol 47 No 10)...

President Thabo Mbeki had previously deployed the then Deputy President Jacob Zuma since sacked...

Jacob Zuma began his political fight-back as soon as he left the Johannesburg High Court on 8 May after his acquittal on charges of rape (AC Vol 47 No 9)...

The finding in late March of the Inspector General of Intelligence Zolile Ngcakani that the sacked National Intelligence Agency Director-General (and Zuma ally) Billy Masetlha had paid a consultant to fabricate the e-mails is hotly disputed on the 'Friends of Jacob Zuma' website and by many within the ANC including Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe...