Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

South Africa has frequently been criticised for failing to use its economic power over Eswatini to compel political reforms especially when ex-President Jacob Zuma who was close to Mswati was marrying members of the royal family...

The forces constraining Ramaphosa will come less from the faction loyal to discredited former President Jacob Zuma and the so-called Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction – the peak of their power has passed...

South Africa has just ended a government subsidy set up by President Jacob Zuma for Central African Republic to run an embassy in Pretoria...

Khulubuse Zuma Jacob Zuma's nephew sits on the DIG board...

Given the animosity towards Ramaphosa of the dissident Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction close to ousted President Jacob Zuma he coulde easily lose a parliamentary vote over the launching of an impeachment...

The Constitutional Court ordered the release of Janusz Walus who was sentenced to life in prison for the 1993 assassination of ANC stalwart Chris Hani on the same day the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that former president Jacob Zuma's medical parole was unlawful and he should return to jail to serve his sentence for contempt of court...

The differences in this case compared with the state capture episodes under Jacob Zuma's presidency seem to matter little in people's perceptions...

8bn) in tender fraud at Eskom during the almost 10 years of rule by convicted former President Jacob Zuma the arrests are seen as a significant milestone in President Cyril Ramaphosa's joint commitment to zero tolerance of corruption and building economic growth analysts said...

The last South African head of state to visit was President Jacob Zuma in 2010...

He has received endorsements from the majority of the country's provinces has the power of incumbency and emerged on top after bruising battles with his predecessor Jacob Zuma whose arrest in July last year sparked widespread unrest described by security chiefs as an insurrection...

Rivonia Circle is affiliated to the Defend Our Democracy movement (DoD) a coalition of some 60 civic organisations which campaigned against President Jacob Zuma's corruption-stained government (AC Vol 63 No 14 Zondo's game changer)...

If President Cyril Ramaphosa and his favoured candidates win in December and the prosecutions of ousted President Jacob Zuma and his allies go ahead he should be able to fend off the RET's pressure ahead of the 2024 elections...

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...