Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

President Jacob Zuma will find it difficult to balance relations with China with the demands of domestic politics...

It was a shrewd move: Shanduka’s Executive Chairman Cyril Ramaphosa a prominent industrialist with impeccable political credentials is a possible successor to President Jacob Zuma...

They include Khulubuse Zuma President Jacob Zuma’s nephew and Zondwa Mandela Nelson Mandela’s grandson (AAC Vol 4 No 8 Aurora's goldmine collapses)...

Erdogan was in South Africa in October for talks with President Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe...

The police Special Investigations Unit which will gather evidence for President Jacob Zuma's new board of inquiry into the 1999 multibillion-rand arms deal may now produce results more pleasing to the President after a change at the top...

To coordinate policy on the state companies President Jacob Zuma launched the Presidential Review Committee in 2009 to examine ways to restructure or sell some of the major state companies...

Typically President Jacob Zuma allows all the faction-fighters to believe he backs them so the disputes rumble on...

Leaning on powerful backers with their own agenda like Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale and Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula he will deploy street protests activist demonstrations and heckling in imitation of the tactics that Jacob Zuma used so successfully to dislodge Thabo Mbeki from the ANC presidency...

The clean-outs are reciprocal among both opponents and supporters of President Jacob Zuma’s bid for a second term as ANC leader and as President (AC Vol 52 No 18 Disrespect for the President & AC Vol 52 No 19 The fight of the century)...

The controversy is providing ample ammunition for President Jacob Zuma’s enemies in a domestic political arena that is rapidly heating up (see Feature Malema and Zuma mass their armies)...

Although the African Union condemned Gbagbo’s refusal to leave power after the election results Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos and South African President Jacob Zuma were his strongest defenders in the AU panel on the Ivorian crisis where they frequently clashed with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré (AC Vol 52 No 4 Democracy standoff and The financial sanctions tighten)...