The biggest casualty so far has been the former Director of the National Intelligence Agency Billy Masetlha who claims he was fired by President Thabo Mbeki and Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils because he was seen as too close to sacked Vice-President and leadership contender Jacob Zuma...
Mlambo-Ngcuka has rapidly increased her advisors - insiders say she employs more than twice as many as her predecessor Jacob Zuma - and she has appointed several new economists and business executives many of them female perhaps to counter the continuing white male dominance of economic policy-making in South Africa...
Vol 48 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The ANC Youth League (then pro-Mbeki now behind his rival Jacob Zuma) invited Afrikaner youth groups to discuss ways of avoiding discrimination against young white South Africans...
The ANC's sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma has urged the SACP to change the ANC's policy direction...
Vol 48 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Disagrees with Mbeki but does not support Jacob Zuma...
Vol 48 No 14 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and her estranged husband Jacob Zuma will be candidates...
Mandela wanted Mbeki to appoint Ramaphosa as his deputy or as prime minister but Mbeki picked Jacob Zuma and a disappointed Ramaphosa quit politics in May 1996...
In the battle between Mbeki and his former Vice-President Jacob Zuma Sexwale tries to place himself as a mediator...
Sensational accusations are flying between Pretoria and Luanda as South Africa's presidential race heats up with frontrunners Jacob Zuma and Tokyo Sexwale both accused of interfering in Angolan politics...
The report dated last December says Dos Santos tasked his ex-intelligence chief General Fernando Miala 'with identifying ways in which Angola could provide support to Jacob Zuma and further his presidential aspirations...
Vol 48 No 10 |
- PARLIAMENTS
The ANC president is also the country's but although Thabo Mbeki wields enormous influence in the ANC he is not all-powerful there and even less so within the party's partners the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party which hammered him over his handling of the very different Deputy President Jacob Zuma...
Vol 48 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Presidential hopeful Jacob Zuma keeps up his political ambitions...
Vol 48 No 7 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
His closest political alliance was with the sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma and his allies in the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)...
The Scorpions an agency independent of the national police would love to bring down Selebi; they have clashed with him over their investigations into Jacob Zuma and his financial advisor Schabir Shaik...