Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

After surviving an attempt by his opponents on the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) to organise a no-confidence vote last month President Jacob Zuma is said to be reviving plans to purge his enemies in the cabinet (AC Vol 57 No 24 Clinging to the wreckage)...

General Siphiwe Nyanda was during the liberation struggle one of Jacob Zuma's closest confidants in the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) but has turned against him...

South Africa may yet return to the court as its own human rights lawyers lodge ever more cases or after President Jacob Zuma leaves power (AC Vol 57 No 23 Starting the post-Zuma race)...

The African National Congress looked more deeply divided than ever as fault lines over the presidency of Jacob Zuma deepened early this week...

President Jacob Zuma and his allies are hoping rating agencies will downgrade South Africa's credit status to 'junk' sources among his supporters have told Africa Confidential...

Zuma has been gunning for Gordhan ever since he was obliged by the economic and business community as well as ANC leaders to reinstate him after his disastrous sacking of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene last December (AC Vol 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

This has been one of Jacob Zuma's worst months since becoming President in 2009...

The most important loss so far is Brian Molefe head of state electricity company Eskom (AC Vol 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

The deal was concluded in mid-December just after President Jacob Zuma had sacked Nhlanhla Nene from the Finance portfolio and tried to appoint his ally Des van Rooyen instead...

Like comedian Groucho Marx who once declared that he wouldn't want to join any club that would have him as a member Burundi's Pierre Nkurunziza South Africa's Jacob Zuma and Gambia's Yahya Jammeh all want to pull their countries out of the International Criminal Court (ICC)...

The courts civil society and the largest trades union took the lead this week as pressure on the governing African National Congress mounts to drop President Jacob Zuma as leader before the party's elective conference scheduled for the end of next year...

The ANC is due to hold its elective conference at the end of 2017 at the latest; Dlamini-Zuma's supporters argue that she is one of the few contenders who might be able to hold the party together as efforts to dismiss President Jacob Zuma her ex-husband gather steam (AC Vol 57 No 21 Stalwarts push for Zuma's exit)...