Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

Magashule the Secretary-General of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is a stalwart ally of ousted President Jacob Zuma and a leading figure in the 'fight-back' campaign against Ramaphosa...

'Lost years'De Klerk who has continued his support of the democratic order despite what he calls 10 'lost years' under former President Jacob Zuma departed from his usual critical but reassuring narrative at the annual meeting of his FW De Klerk Foundation on 2 February to sound a warning...

Rather than fight head-on his enemies in the ruling party which is controlled by allies of former President Jacob Zuma led by ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule the President wants criminal justice to do the job for him...

President Ramaphosa has looked for advice from outside Eskom since he succeeded Jacob Zuma in February 2018...

A faction in the KwaZulu-Natal party where loyalists to ex-President Jacob Zuma wield considerable power and have perhaps the most to lose from restrictions on patronage intends to move the motion from the conference floor Africa Confidential understands (AC Vol 60 No 21 'Dump Cyril' move in KZN)...

It would mean Moody's joining S & P Global and Fitch which cut South Africa's rating to sub-investment level in 2017 when the country was consumed by the latest round of corruption scandals under President Jacob Zuma...

80 for nuclear energy the favoured option of former President Jacob Zuma...

Cyril Ramaphosa's supporters have claimed that the broadcast of the wrong version of the President's recent address to the nation was 'deliberate sabotage' by supporters and appointees in the South African Broadcasting Corporation of former President Jacob Zuma and African National Congress Secretary General Ace Magashule...

Eskom which supplies 95% of the country's electricity was at the centre of massive corruption during Jacob Zuma's presidency...

It includes the Jacob Zuma-supporting former minister Lynne Brown Ramaphosa-supporter and former ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool and provincial treasurer  Maurencia Gillion who is an ally of Magashule's...