Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

Spirits were hardly dampened least of all those of sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma who was given red carpet treatment by Speaker Baleka Mbete of the kind usually accorded to visiting heads of state...

She has failed to win the hearts of the public or the ANC while attracting bitter enmity from ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma's supporters - not only for taking his job but also for being married to the head of the National Prosecutions Agency (NPA) Bulelani Ngcuka chief investigator of Zuma's alleged misdeeds...

Her disadvantage is that she used to be married to Jacob Zuma which may be why she turned down Mbeki's initial offer of the vice-presidency after the sacking of her ex-husband...

Jacob Zuma's opponents in the ANC and beyond would be glad to see Dlamini-Zuma in the presidency...

She returned to South Africa in 1990 and was assistant to Jacob Zuma head of the ANC's intelligence division...

With Jacob Zuma's star waning the unions are looking for an alternative...

Traditionally the ANC does not tolerate public leadership campaigns but sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma is already on the trail and will be joined by several other senior party figures during the year...

It began when Brett Kebble a mining magnate and fraudster (AC Vol 47 No 22) who has been bankrolling the defence of the sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma was shot dead in his car on 27 September last year...

He had especially strong ties to sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma and the ANC Youth League pronouncing himself a strong supporter of black empowerment...

Even the most conservative African National Congress activists admit that a schism has developed in the party between supporters of President Thabo Mbeki and those of sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma...

The African National Congress Provincial Conferences will be fiercely lobbied by Jacob Zuma's and Thabo Mbeki's camps...

The invective between supporters of Mbeki and his sacked deputy Jacob Zuma is highly personal and African National Congress officials worry that it is taking on an ethnic slant as well...

Wen knows personally the Deputy President of SA's governing African National Congress Jacob Zuma while President Hu Jintao and SA President Thabo Mbeki have known each other since they were their countries' deputy leaders...