Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

President Jacob Zuma’s mid-September decision to form a commission of inquiry into the controversial arms deal of the late 1990s is being widely seen as an attempt to forestall the judicial inquiry that the African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema and many others are demanding...

South African President Jacob Zuma’s determination to see a draft deal agreed has helped to nudge Ravalomanana towards acceptance...

On both issues South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma and his Ambassador the UN have been trying to rally the African troops...

True to form President Jacob Zuma acted decisively only when his personal position as leader of the African National Congress came under threat...

Characteristically President Jacob Zuma keeps quiet about what he thinks while his business baron friends are against it...

President Jacob Zuma’s foreign policy his critics at home say is just like his domestic policy: he sits on the fence hoping to please everyone and in the end paralysis follows...

Maite Nkoana-Mashabane International Relations and Cooperation Minister: a former High Commissioner to India and Malaysia she was a leading activist in Limpopo Province backing Jacob Zuma against Thabo Mbeki for the presidency; her profile is rising in the African National Congress (ANC) party and internationally...

Zulu is South African President Jacob Zuma’s international affairs advisor seconded to bolster the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic) which is meant to check that the power-sharing government of ZANU-PF and MDC keeps to the agreement both signed in 2009 (AC Vol 52 No 12 and Vol 50 No 4)...

Others who put on the pressure included Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Premier Raila Odinga who each brought delegations of 50 or so Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who brought what a witness described as ‘an outrageous convoy including a private ambulance that looked armoured’ and South African President Jacob Zuma whose armoured personnel carriers had to be moved on by the SPLA because they were blocking the way for everybody else...

Accusations of corruption against police chiefs plans for state interference with the media and innuendo about politicians compromised by business associates – British Prime Minister David Cameron and South African President Jacob Zuma seemed to have enough in common during their smiling encounter in Tshwane on 18 July...