Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

In the interval between his acquittal on rape charges and his trial for corruption Jacob Zuma is working hard on his political career (AC Vol 47 No 10)...

President Thabo Mbeki had previously deployed the then Deputy President Jacob Zuma since sacked...

Jacob Zuma began his political fight-back as soon as he left the Johannesburg High Court on 8 May after his acquittal on charges of rape (AC Vol 47 No 9)...

The finding in late March of the Inspector General of Intelligence Zolile Ngcakani that the sacked National Intelligence Agency Director-General (and Zuma ally) Billy Masetlha had paid a consultant to fabricate the e-mails is hotly disputed on the 'Friends of Jacob Zuma' website and by many within the ANC including Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe...

The many misfortunes of Jacob Zuma self-inflicted or otherwise have elevated Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (AC Vol 47 No 6)...

Mbeki's first choice as his successor was Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Jacob Zuma's ex-wife...

Mbeki flagged her candidacy a month after he began his presidency in 1999 having appointed Jacob Zuma as his deputy...

Jacob Zuma goes for broke Zuma's presidential ambitions were helped from the start by left-wingers in Cosatu and the SACP who thought Mbeki insufficiently radical...

In the middle of a politically damaging rape trial and facing another on corruption charges in July Jacob Zuma finds his finances under heavy pressure...

Don Mkhwanazi is a leading KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) businessman and chairs the board of the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust...

Mkhwanazi was previously involved in the Jacob Zuma RDP Education Trust...

Masethla and former Deputy President Jacob Zuma are close allies and were uneasy about Kroll's close relationship with former Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka and President Thabo Mbeki...

Accusing some government officials of trying to destroy him over the past five years besieged former Deputy President Jacob Zuma told Africa Confidential that he had a duty to fight the rape and corruption charges against him to prove that 'the system must work'...

However they were distracted by the opening and adjourning in Johannesburg on 13 February of the trial on rape charges of former Vice-President Jacob Zuma...

SOUTH AFRICA: The political caravan starts with the trial of sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma on rape charges in February immediately followed by local government elections in March and then Zuma's return to the courts in July to face charges of fraud and corruption (AC Vol 46 No 24)...

As the fate of sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma divides the ANC foreign investors have been signing big new deals while the rand holds firm against other major currencies and may strengthen further next year...