Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

President Jacob Zuma promised boosts in spending on health education security and rural development but the recession has limited Finance Minister Gordhan's discretionary spending growth to only R900 million and he allocated it all to HIV/AIDS...

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the SA Communist Party (SACP) have gained strength since they helped President Jacob Zuma into power in April...

Using defence tactics which had worked so well in Jacob Zuma's long battle against corruption charges in the run-up to his successful presidential bid Selebi has gone on the offensive accusing the prosecutors of pursuing a corrupt vendetta against him...

South Africa's mission in Malabo initially claimed to be unaware that Du Toit and the others had been freed on 2 November but it seems that the release followed negotiations ahead of President Jacob Zuma's 3 November visit to Malabo...

Following a meeting with Tsvangirai on 21 October in Cape Town South African President Jacob Zuma declared that 'the country should not be allowed to slide back into instability and that he was ready to assist the parties in implementing the Global Political Agreement (AC Vol 50 No 17)...

After the African National Congress leadership in the Western Cape was suspended because of the governing party's poor showing there in this year's elections President Jacob Zuma set up a task team...

The arms manufacturer Thales was alleged in court to have paid 500 000 rand (then $100 000) to Jacob Zuma (now President) during a multibillion dollar deal in 1999...

The standard criticism of Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma was that he was a populist seeking the presidency mainly to protect himself against prosecution for corrupt enrichment in South Africa's US$6 billion arms deal (AC Vol 49 No 16)...

Free State Premier Ace Magashule recently told a meeting in his province that 'Jacob Zuma is like Chris Hani...

Jacob Zuma is like Oliver Tambo...

Jacob Zuma rarely hides his distaste of journalists - particularly those who ridiculed his presidential ambitions and his political commitment - and his supporters rail against media enemies who portrayed him as a populist buffoon...

Pictures of police firing rubber bullets into a crowd of protestors in Thokoza township on 27 July gave President Jacob Zuma's three-month-old government its strongest reality check to date...