Driving that trend is ousted President Jacob Zuma facing serial corruption charges and his allies in the Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction in the party...

But KZN's silence is causing worry in Ramaphosa circles and provincial insiders tell Africa Confidential that Dlamini-Zuma and Mkhize entering the race as well as former president Jacob Zuma wanting to make a return threatens to split the province's support for one candidate...

In August led by provincial chairman Sboniso Duma party leaders went to see Jacob Zuma at his Nklandla home...

Hain has campaigned for several years to flush out global corporations and banks that made billions of rand from their complicity in state capture and money-laundering mainly for the Gupta brothers with the aid of former President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 58 No 12 Net closes around the Guptas)...

The newly elected radical KZN group – which answers to the name 'Taliban' – are loyal to former President Jacob Zuma who still wields huge influence in the province (AC Vol 63 No 16)...

Anyone who thought ex-President Jacob Zuma was a spent force within the ruling African National Congress had a rude awakening at the ninth KwaZulu-Natal elective conference on 22-24 July when his supporters swept the board of regional leadership posts...

A SONG TO ZUMA The legacy and theatrics of ousted President Jacob Zuma loomed large over the during the African National Congress's 22-24 July conference in KwaZulu-Natal...

But Dos Santos gained little kudos for that from South Africa's victorious African National Congress (ANC) many of whose leaders including Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma had long-standing disputes with the MPLA...

That cost the ANC votes when it emerged that the state had been paying for security work on ex-President Jacob Zuma's homestead (AC Vol 59 No 1 Pushing Zuma to the exit)...

Instead they are asking why it took him so long to act against his predecessor Jacob Zuma now facing a raft of corruption charges...

Maile and those close to him especially Mzwandile Masina and his faction who control the key Gauteng sub-division of Ekurhuleni have no qualms about working with Malema even though Masina was a key ally of President Jacob Zuma at the time he was moving against Malema when he was leader of the ANC Youth League (AC Vol 62 No 16 Who runs Gauteng...