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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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A change of register

Now South African President Jacob Zuma has offered his view that no elections can be held unless the ‘road map’ has been followed...


How to win friends

Then on his return from British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s funeral the ostensible ‘good cop’ Vice-President Scott made comments about South African President Jacob Zuma: he compared him to apartheid-era President F...


Pleas to go

President Jacob Zuma puzzled his central African interlocutors and CAR politicians by claiming they had made a ‘passionate plea’ for South African troops to return to the troubled country on 18 April...


Lords of misrule

Members of the Communauté économique des états de l’Afrique centrale (CEEAC) met South African President Jacob Zuma and observers from other countries on 3 April for exchanges that were often heated...


ANC wields the long knives

President Jacob Zuma and his allies have begun their long-awaited purge of trades unionists party members and government officials judged to have opposed him at the African National Congress conference in Mangaung in December...


Blade's think-tank regiment

Appointing so staunch an ally would consolidate President Jacob Zuma’s power in an area of government he increasingly sees as his own...


South African troops under fire

The former Prime Minister and leader of the Mouvement de libération du peuple centrafricain Martin Ziguélé told Radio France Internationale on 26 March that he believed South African President Jacob Zuma has been ‘dragged along into this wasps’ nest mostly by South African businessmen’ interested in mining but that it was a trap...


Guns, jobs and strikes

President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town on 14 February was drowned out by news of the arrest of Olympic champion Oscar Pistorius earlier that day on a murder charge...


The left-right clash on economics

The National Development Plan is ‘a road map to a South Africa where all will have water electricity sanitation jobs housing public transport adequate nutrition education social protection quality healthcare recreation and a clean environment ’ President Jacob Zuma proudly announced on 14 February...


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