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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 markets bet on Ramaphosa's grand coalition

The DA on the urging of its business sponsors has made compromises to keep the GNU project alive – but above all to keep Julius Malema's populist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and former President Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party out of government (AC Vol 65 No 13 The ANC stitches together a pro-market coalition)...

As a close Ramaphosa ally Mchunu is expected to tackle endemic corruption in the police force over the past decade and clean up residual sleepers in police intelligence from the era of discredited former President Jacob Zuma...

The third faction are those who broadly support ex-President Jacob Zuma and his allies in the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party and would like to see them back in the fold and strongly oppose the GNU's inclusion of the Democratic Alliance...


The centre is holding – for now

Others who played a key role in the unfolding drama include: Jacob Zuma: The election entry of the former President on a populist ticket in December last year siphoned so much of the ANC's support that the ruling party at 40...


Choices get starker after the ANC vote crash

A substantial number in the ANC ranks – it's unclear whether it's a majority or not – favour an alliance of sorts with ex-President Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe party (14...

THE DANGERS OF A KWAZULU-NATAL EXPLOSION South Africa's security chiefs have mounted a sweeping security operation in KwaZulu-Natal province to prevent post-election violence in the wake of former President Jacob Zuma's stunning election victory...

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On the back foot in Gauteng

We hear that Ramaphosa and allies were worried that Mabuza an erstwhile ally of ex-President Jacob Zuma would switch to Zuma's new party uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) which some pollster claim could take half the votes in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN)...


A reckoning for the Ramaphosa party

Electoral activists say that Russia is backing both the ANC and former President Jacob Zuma...

Africa Confidential understands that the high-risk stations are mainly in KwaZulu-Natal where the newly formed MK party of former President Jacob Zuma is making a bid to topple the ruling ANC as the biggest party in the province with some spillover into Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces...


Zuma challenges the ANC in his base

The complex arithmetic between provincial and national votes means that former President Jacob Zuma's new party could wreck the ruling African National Congress's (ANC) chances of scraping a narrow majority in the elections on 29 May...

JACOB ZUMA'S LEGACY PARTY ON PARADE The interim National Leadership Core of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) is made up of mostly former African National Congress members loyal to former President Jacob Zuma...


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