Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi)

Mbeki's fiercest would-be successor the ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma claims that the NPA's investigation of his affairs is part of a political vendetta; Pikoli's suspension helps his cause while making Mbeki look out of touch...

Insiders say that President Thabo Mbeki is frustrated by the National Prosecuting Authority's inability to make headway in its case against Jacob Zuma...

His predecessor Bulelani Ngcuka resigned after pitched battles with African National Congress leaders investigated by the Scorpions; Jacob Zuma still blames him for his current troubles...

The sacked Vice-President Jacob Zuma and the tycoon Tokyo Sexwale run openly...

The biggest casualty so far has been the former Director of the National Intelligence Agency Billy Masetlha who claims he was fired by President Thabo Mbeki and Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils because he was seen as too close to sacked Vice-President and leadership contender Jacob Zuma...

Mlambo-Ngcuka has rapidly increased her advisors - insiders say she employs more than twice as many as her predecessor Jacob Zuma - and she has appointed several new economists and business executives many of them female perhaps to counter the continuing white male dominance of economic policy-making in South Africa...

The ANC Youth League (then pro-Mbeki now behind his rival Jacob Zuma) invited Afrikaner youth groups to discuss ways of avoiding discrimination against young white South Africans...

The ANC's sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma has urged the SACP to change the ANC's policy direction...

Disagrees with Mbeki but does not support Jacob Zuma...

Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and her estranged husband Jacob Zuma will be candidates...

Mandela wanted Mbeki to appoint Ramaphosa as his deputy or as prime minister but Mbeki picked Jacob Zuma and a disappointed Ramaphosa quit politics in May 1996...

In the battle between Mbeki and his former Vice-President Jacob Zuma Sexwale tries to place himself as a mediator...