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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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The banishing of Billy

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...


Putting the country to work

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...


The race to win

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 race for the presidency heats up as business joins in

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...


Eat the document

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...


Oppositionists and activists struggle to shake out the system

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...


First murder, now money

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...


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