Vol 66 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The problem lies in persistent delays rooted in the long-standing separation of investigation and prosecution – a structural flaw the Scorpions had overcome before President Jacob Zuma dismantled them...
Public scepticism remains high with many questioning whether another commission of inquiry will deliver results – especially in light of frustrations stemming from the Zondo Commission into state capture which exposed the ANC under former President Jacob Zuma as an ‘organised criminal enterprise' that ‘knew what was going on but did nothing about it' (AC Vol 63 Nos 1 The ANC faces a reckoning on corruption 10 Zondo hands ANC a time-bomb 14 Zondo's game changer Dispatches 22/5/22 Oppositionists demand action on Zondo and edge towards coalition & Vol 64 No 14 ANC leaders wade into new ethics row)...
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Vol 66 No 14 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Brian Molefe and Siyabonga Gama both deputies for former President Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party will appear in court in October after being arrested on multiple corruption charges last week...
Yet graft charges have hung over Molefe and Gama for some time and date to their tenures as executives at Transnet a government-owned logistics company (AC Vol 65 No 24 The rise fall and rise again of Jacob Zuma)...
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Vol 66 No 8 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
This stance aligned the DA which secured 22% of the national vote with two populist opposition parties – the EFF (10%) and the MK party (15%) led by indicted former President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 65 No 12 Choices get starker after the ANC vote crash & Vol 65 No 13 The ANC stitches together a pro-market coalition)...
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Vol 66 No 6 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Having two budgets publicly rejected by his coalition partners has given opposition parties led by former President Jacob Zuma's Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) party and Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) an easy target to accuse the government of hitting the poor...
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Vol 66 No 3 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Signing the bill will appeal to the African National Congress's left and is a clear attempt to win back voters who previously shifted their support to Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and former President Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party...
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Vol 66 No 2 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The new political parties such as Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party also came under fire...
KZN ANC members argue that dissolving the PECs could empower Zuma and his MK party at a time when the ANC is desperate to regain ground ahead of the 2026 local government elections (AC Vol 65 No 24 The rise fall and rise again of Jacob Zuma)...
But a fallout between the EFF's Julius Malema and MK's Jacob Zuma has shattered the original post-election ‘progressive alliance' of the parties (AC Vol 65 No 16 Hurdles for Progressive Caucus)...
Zuma will wield immense power within MK the leading opposition party in parliament which will target Ramaphosa and try to revive the land distribution issue (AC Vol 65 No 24 The rise fall and rise again of Jacob Zuma)...
Vol 65 No 24 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party is shaping the landscape as it gears up for its first anniversary on 16 December its ranks bolstered by several high-profile defectors from Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)...
THE NEW FRONT LINE UMKHONTO WESIZWE Dali Mpofu – Former African National Congress (ANC) member; first national chair of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and Jacob Zuma's lawyer...
Vol 65 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has wasted no time in getting its policy tsar to work laying on motorcades around the provinces with local MK leaders political rallies and a gala dinner for its newly appointed national organiser former Economic Freedom Front (EFF) deputy president Floyd Shivambu...
However the EFF which was the third-largest party in the 2019 election with 44 seats was knocked into fourth place by Zuma's MK winning only 38 seats (Dispatches 7/8/24 Chastened ANC pins the blame on Jacob Zuma)...
Jacob Zuma who is yet to hold an elective conference has not been shy about hiring and firing – including the recent axing of the party's secretary-general Arthur Zwane and treasurer-general Danisa Zulu – and rehiring MK leaders...
Former cabinet spokesperson Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson African Transformation Movement MP then EFF MP and now MK member...
Vol 65 No 18 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
Grandiose plans for the construction of eight nuclear plants in South Africa for US$73 billion 10 years ago forged by President Jacob Zuma came to nothing when he lost office (AC Vol 58 No 1 Power struggle goes nuclear)...