Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

Ngcuka heads the crack Directorate of Special Operations known as the 'Scorpions' which spent nearly two years building up a case of bribery against deputy President Jacob Zuma the country's second most senior politician...

Sources close to Mbeki believe the front-runner for that position is Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma former wife of Jacob Zuma and custodian of Mbeki's foreign policy and much-vaunted African initiatives...

The ovation given to Deputy President Jacob Zuma at last month's national conference of the Congress of South African Trade Unions points again to the very odd nature of the Tripartite Alliance between the governing African National Congress on one side and Cosatu and the SA Communist Party on the other...

Tension is rising over his strategy to derail Jacob Zuma as Deputy President and impose his own choice ready to take over in 2009 as the country's third black president...

It claims it was the SA Navy's preferred supplier of electronics and that it lost the deal to Thomson because of Schabir's close relationship with the government through Deputy President Jacob Zuma...

Ndayizeye's late-July visit to Pretoria failed to move things forward and was heavily overshadowed by domestic South African matters: investigations into the financial affairs of Deputy President Jacob Zuma the man most associated with keeping the Burundi peace process alive...

Determined to achieve what he can with his resources Mbeki has sent his emissaries shuttling around Africa in a bid to help extinguish some conflicts; Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad and Deputy President Jacob Zuma with ex-President Nelson Mandela have been making a special effort on Burundi...

With all these advantages Ramaphosa looks set to frustrate for now the leadership hopes of the ambitious Deputy President Jacob Zuma as well as Defence Minister and ANC National Chairman Mosiuoa Patrick 'Terror' Lekota...

In line with a written commitment from Ndayizéyé signed on 31 March in South Africa and witnessed by South African Vice-President Jacob Zuma he has a number of important responsibilities...

Much of the credit for this smart strategy goes to the current national Deputy President Jacob Zuma the ANC's senior Zulu who mollified Buthelezi while wooing the Zulu King Zwelithini into neutrality (AC Vol 36 No 13)...

The obvious challenger Vice-President Jacob Zuma is under investigation for alleged corruption in the government's US$6 billion arms deal...