Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

Omer helped by Gadaffi and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak (both of whose regimes are threatened by Khartoum's Islamist allies) is trying to ignore the ICC warrant although this week he cancelled a trip to Uganda after a Foreign Ministry official in Kampala suggested he would be arrested; Omer failed to attend South African President Jacob Zuma's inauguration for the same reason...

New Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson (see Box) has also been talking about stronger engagement with South Africa under the new government of Jacob Zuma...

Secondly President Jacob Zuma's new government is under pressure from its left-wing allies in the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party to limit Anglo's commercial freedom - or even to nationalise it...

Many supported Jacob Zuma and donated to both his and the African National Congress's election campaigns...

The appointment of the inexperienced Maite Nkoana-Mashabane as Foreign Minister in the new African National Congress (ANC) government suggests that President Jacob Zuma will dominate foreign policy with his strong economic team of Planning Minister Trevor Manuel and Trade Minister Rob Davie (AC Vol 50 Nos 11 & 12)...

Angola will welcome Jacob Zuma on his first foreign trip as President 'before Christmas'...

Just days after President Jacob Zuma’s 3 June State of the Nation Address on accountability in government and jobs for the people the trades unions hit back with calls for wage rises and the sacking of the Governor of the Reserve Bank...

The trades union chief Zwelinzima Vavi a key supporter of President Jacob Zuma when he was a mere candidate is warning the government of a season of strikes if wages are not quickly increased...

The trades unions' legal challenge to the listing of the multibillion dollar Vodacom cellular phone group on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange tested President Jacob Zuma's political nerves...

A night of haggling preceded President Jacob Zuma's 10 May announcement of a new cabinet which includes people from the left the centre black business populists and even a right-wing Afrikaner...