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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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Powers behind the throne

Mbeki combining the presidency and deputy presidency had a staff of 316 ready for him the day after his election by parliament on 17 June; • The new presidency will be administered by Chikane who retains his title of Director General; of his four deputy directors general one will be the administrator of the office of the deputy president - intended as the office of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi if he had accepted the job; under Jacob Zuma it will be largely ceremonial...


Compulsory coalition

He has a cool head and would be instructed to avoid triumphalism both by Mbeki and by Jacob Zuma the ANC's Deputy President a Zulu who has done much to pacify the province...


Mbeki's new machine

The six top office-bearers in the new NEC are: Mbeki (President) Jacob Zuma (Deputy President) Patrick ‘Terror' Lekota (National Chairperson) Kgalema Motlanthe (Secretary General) Thenjiwe Mtintso (Deputy Secretary General) and Mendi Msimang (Treasurer General)...


Winning against Winnie

By contrast the ANC establishment candidate for the Deputy Presidency Jacob Zuma (ANC National Chairman and kwaZulu/Natal leader) got a lack-lustre reception at the Cosatu conference...

It has dropped its attempts to persuade the low-profile and reluctant Joel Netshitenzhe to stand for the post and instead is trying to close ranks behind Jacob Zuma...


Fighting for top jobs

The party post is hotly contested with four candidates in the field: * Jacob Zuma ANC head of intelligence in the mid-1980s is now ANC National Chairperson and leader of the party in kwaZulu-Natal where the ANC has nominated him for its deputy presidency and oddly he is said to enjoy the tacit support of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's ANC Women's League...


Hard bargains

The elevation of Buthelezi's political status in the GNU say ANC sources is only one aspect of the broader peace package initiated by the ANC national and kwaZulu-Natal provincial Chairman Jacob Zuma...


Opening up the ANC

Deputy President and anointed heir Thabo Mbeki favours Jacob Zuma as his successor we hear...

And if not Jacob Zuma then his wife Minister of Health Nkosazana Zuma...


Back to the kraal

Closer cooperation between Inkatha's Mdlalose and ANC provincial leader Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 37 No 13) has been emulated lower down the ranks; the decline in political violence in the six-week run-up to the polls was a significant success...


Too much truth 

Criticism of Zuma the senior wife of ANC National Chairman Jacob Zuma peaked after Public Protector (ombudsman) Selby Baqwa investigated the Health Ministry's sponsorship of Ngema's anti-AIDS play Sarafina II...


Mandela's front line

Economic Affairs Minister kwaZulu-Natal Jacob Zuma: ineffectual in kwaZulu but still in Mandela's magic circle...


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