Vol 49 No 22 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
As banks collapsed and great industrial firms were threatened with closure Jacob Zuma the African National Congress President and probably the next President of South Africa struggled to attract a high-level audience...
Vol 49 No 22 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The Congress of South African Trade Unions and South African Communist Party are enraged by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma's statements on economic policy continuity...
Vol 49 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Three factions are now vying for power in the African National Congress: the dominant group led by ANC President Jacob Zuma which controls the National Executive Committee (NEC) the trades unions the Youth League and the intelligence groups; their immediate rivals who remain loyal to ousted national President Thabo Mbeki; and a third group led by Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota...
Vol 49 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
All the African National Congress’s provincial branches are internally divided between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma supporters...
Vol 49 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Mbeki thwarted his bid to challenge his then ally Jacob Zuma for the ANC deputy presidency in 2002...
Vol 49 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu who has called ANC President Jacob Zuma an embarrassment said: ‘Many people would not be too embarrassed to have [Motlanthe] as head of state...
Vol 49 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Throughout the battle between Mbeki and Jacob Zuma he has positioned himself as the one to which both sides can turn...
Vol 49 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
As President Thabo Mbeki claims a rare success in promoting cooperation between the rivals in neighbouring Zimbabwe the Jacob Zuma-dominated ANC leadership is deciding whether to impeach him call for a parliamentary vote of no-confidence or ask him to forestall public humiliation by resigning...
A messy succession The moves to oust Thabo Mbeki from the Presidency like the moves to prosecute Jacob Zuma for corruption are unlikely to produce a quick result...
There is no question of Mbeki going early he added but there was a groundswell of opposition to Jacob Zuma within the party to the extent that this group might advise African National Congress supporters not to campaign or vote for Zuma in next year’s elections...
What the Judge said Jacob Zuma and his supporters celebrated the judgement that left him off the hook on charges of corruption fraud and money laundering...
Vol 49 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Acting Judge Chris Nicholson’s bitterest swipe was his comparison of President Thabo Mbeki’s campaign to sideline rival Jacob Zuma to that of apartheid governments using legislation and state institutions to prosecute political opponents...
Instead South African investigators have focused on the Thales deal to which Mbeki’s rival Jacob Zuma is linked...