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Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) leaders have demanded that the federation ditch its support for Jacob Zuma as its preferred candidate for the ANC presidency, media reports said. Zuma’s candidacy came under debate at a heated Cosatu central executive committee meeting held at the federation’s Johannesburg headquarters from February 26 to 28.
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/ 13 November 2006
This week, a man described by the trial judge as ambitious, far-sighted and brazen — if not positively aggressive — in pursuit of his financial interests found that our legal system may grind slowly, but it sure grinds finely. The Supreme Court of Appeal handed down a judgement that in its fine attention to detail exposed Schabir Shaik, not only as a ruthless crook, but also as the person who may have destroyed the political ambitions of Jacob Zuma.
If it can reasonably be defined as a political philosophy or rhetorical brand that sticks up for the common person against the elite, why is it that “populism” is so widely denigrated? When American liberals speak of Hugo Chávez as a populist, it is not a term of endearment.
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/ 28 September 2006
For argument’s sake let us leave aside all other allegations against Jacob Zuma, deputy president of the ANC. Let us accept that he was justly acquitted in the rape trial earlier this year and that the subsequent corruption case was struck off the roll as a result of monumental bungling by the state.
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/ 21 September 2006
Most South Africans seemed to have an opinion after former deputy President Jacob Zuma’s corruption court case was struck from the roll on Wednesday morning. Here are a selection of quotes from newspapers, including the <i>Star</i>, the <i>Citizen</i>, the <i>Daily Sun</i>, the <i>Sowetan</i>.
As the rape trial of former president Jacob Zuma unfolds, use this timeline to keep track of the most important events of each day of the trial.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The possibility of Jacob Zuma having contracted HIV from the woman he allegedly raped was discussed in the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday. The former deputy president has said he had unprotected and consensual sex with the woman on November 2 last year. Virology specialist Professor Desmond Martin told the court the risk of acquiring the virus through unprotected sex is three in 10 000.
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/ 26 February 2006
The activists who were insulted and threatened outside the court where Zuma appeared on on rape charges last week have already received permission to protest when the case resumes. The Mail & Guardian‘s Ferial Haffajee spoke to one of the organisers.
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/ 9 February 2006
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Judge Phineas Mojapelo may preside over the rape trial of Jacob Zuma next week, but the final announcement will only be made on Friday. An official in the Johannesburg High Court registrar’s office said on Thursday that Mojapelo would preside over the trial, but an official in Mojapelo’s chambers said he could not confirm this.
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/ 30 December 2005
South Africans are bracing for political storm clouds in 2006 as the ruling African Nations Congress confronts its biggest crisis in more than a decade of power, but an economic boom could spread some sunshine. The turmoil surrounding the fate of former deputy president Jacob Zuma, once a frontrunner to succeed President Thabo Mbeki, has laid bare deep divisions within the ANC.