Mahumapelo one of former president Jacob Zuma's closest confidants was suspended as Premier of North-West province for serial defiance of the party leadership (AC Vol 62 No 11 Fightback lands in the courts)...

These will include the much-criticised Sitole a staunch ally of ex-president Jacob Zuma who faces an inquiry into whether he is fit to hold office...

We hear that the party's Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction which supports former president Jacob Zuma is looking at backing another KZN heavyweight Zweli Mkhize who resigned as Health Minister last year after corruption allegations relating to a state Covid communications contract...

Corporate powerBanker and corporate power in Nigeria has its parallels in South Africa where business titan Cyril Ramaphosa won the African National Congress leadership in 2017 taking over the national presidency from Jacob Zuma in 2018...

The charred remains of a symbol of South Africa's hard-won democracy in 1994 now serves as a reminder of the government's failure to end corruption create jobs and re-energise an economy ravaged by the pandemic and 'state capture' under former President Jacob Zuma – all promised in previous presidential speeches...

It is also the province where loyalty to former President Jacob Zuma is highest and saw some of the worst violence and sabotage when he was jailed last July...

His dilemma is that he rules with an executive on which former President Jacob Zuma – who has been convicted for contempt of court and faces multiple fraud charges – has observer status...

Critics of the RET say their real objective is to perpetuate the system of rent-seeking and patronage that skimmed billions of rand off dodgy state contacts for politically connected individuals under Jacob Zuma who was convicted last year for refusing to testify at the Zondo commission (AC Vol 62 No 8 The state capturers fight back)...

This begins the next stage in efforts to hold to account the politicians and companies colluding in grand corruption under former President Jacob Zuma's tenure...

In South Africa he announced that he could no longer vote for the ANC having criticised at first the selective beneficiaries of the Black Economic Empowerment initiatives and then the political and corporate corruption reaching its apogee under Jacob Zuma's presidency (AC Vol 61 No 17 Graft puts ANC on the spot)...