Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

When the Diko scandal hit Gauteng premier David Makhura immediately came under pressure to prove that the President's words actually meant something and that Ramaphosa's 'new' ANC is a different animal from Jacob Zuma's (AC Vol 58 No 14 Cyril's musical chairs)...

7 billion rand (US$160 million) those who raked off billions under former President Jacob Zuma have yet to face criminal prosecution...

Investors are also looking for a signal that Shamila Batohi the National Director of Public Prosecutions is making headway in prosecuting the ringleaders of state capture under former President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 58 No 13 Factional fireworks threaten party & Vol 60 No 15 Zuma blusters at Zondo)...

The result was the country's now notorious arms deal scandal which is back in the news because of former President Jacob Zuma's long-delayed but now imminent trial on charges of taking bribes from French arms manufacturer Thales to keep its name out of an official investigation...

Yet they have also been used unilaterally to project power such as when President Jacob Zuma dispatched a force as to Central African Republic in 2013 when the troops vainly tried to prevent Séléka coalition forces taking the capital Bangui and lost 13 men and considerable face before leaving (AC Vol 54 No 2 With Zuma to Bangui & Vol 54 No 7 Séléka takes power)...

Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela who exposed much of the grand corruption under former President Jacob Zuma and is now the Law Trust chair in Social Justice at Stellenbosch University warned Ramaphosa to expect more pushback against excesses (AC Vol 57 No 22 A week of defeats for Zuma)...

Before the Covid-19 pandemic struck South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his centrist supporters were locked in combat with followers of former President Jacob Zuma African National Congress Secretary-General Ace Magashule and Deputy President David Mabuza...

Rival's powerHeading the informal coalition of securocrats and 'micro-fiddlers' is Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma ex-wife of disgraced former President Jacob Zuma and the main political rival of Ramaphosa who narrowly beat her for the leadership of the African National Congress in December 2017 (AC Vol 59 No 1 Pushing Zuma to the exit)...

Magashule who has repeatedly affirmed his loyalty to former president Jacob Zuma is in the sights of an influential civil society group planning a campaign to publicly identify and embarrass senior officials who have been identified as corrupt Zuma loyalists and thus put pressure on the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions to bring charges against them...

A South African is to be unlikely to be acceptable to Libyans who well recall ex-President Jacob Zuma's warm relations with the 'Brother Colonel' as Zuma called Moammar el Gadaffi...

It will also embolden the so called 'Fightback' group including supporters of ousted president Jacob Zuma and Secretary General of the governing African National Congress Ace Magashule to step up their attacks on Ramaphosa (AC Vol 61 No 4 Ramaphosus interruptus)...