Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

The powerful KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) branch of the African National Congress the governing party's largest lifted Jacob Zuma into the ANC presidency at its 2007 and 2012 national conferences and has long been considered his safest haven...

This is an increasingly common refrain within the political class as evidence mounts that in emulation of neighbouring Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's survival strategy President Jacob Zuma has not been deflected from a policy of protecting widespread rent-seeking behind a populist smokescreen...

The South African Communist Party intends to withdraw its members from President Jacob Zuma's cabinet if he goes through with the sacking of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan party sources have told Africa Confidential...

Just as mounting political crises again threatened to overwhelm President Jacob Zuma he pulled out the land card to buy himself breathing space before the African National Congress's elective conference in nine months' time...

Zuma has long appeased traditional leaders as he sees their power as crucial to ensuring his own political survival and that of the ANC in 2019 (AC Vol 58 No 4 The state of Jacob Zuma's presidency)...

President Jacob Zuma has become increasingly irritated with his respected Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan who was widely praised after presenting a balanced budget on 22 February amidst trying economic circumstances (AC Vol 58 No 4 The state of Jacob Zuma's presidency)...

Zuma learned the limits of his power when he was forced to abandon plans to replace the then Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene with David van Rooyen and ended up re-appointing Gordhan (AC 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

With ten more months as leader of the African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma tried to shore up his government with a flurry of populist policies – long on rhetoric and short on detail – at the opening of Parliament on 9 February...

For the past year he has been locked in battle with President Jacob Zuma over sundry investigations into the well-connected Gupta family's influence on state spending decisions and presidential plans for multi-billion dollar nuclear power contracts to be awarded to Russian state companies (AC Vol 58 No 1 Power struggle goes nuclear)...

Infighting in the governing African National Congress is holding back economic policy reforms especially those in the state-owned enterprises regarded as one of President Jacob Zuma's remaining fiefdoms...

On South Africa's Reconciliation Day on 16 December President Jacob Zuma's speech in the North-West Province was brought to a halt when strong wind and heavy rain blew away the marquee where he was speaking...

After surviving an attempt by his opponents on the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) to organise a no-confidence vote last month President Jacob Zuma is said to be reviving plans to purge his enemies in the cabinet (AC Vol 57 No 24 Clinging to the wreckage)...

General Siphiwe Nyanda was during the liberation struggle one of Jacob Zuma's closest confidants in the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) but has turned against him...