Jacob Zuma, a prominent South African politician, held the presidency from 2009 to 2018. Throughout his political journey, Zuma's trajectory has been a blend of achievements and controversies, rendering him a polarizing figure within South African politics.
His legacy is a subject of ongoing debate, as supporters commend his role in the anti-apartheid movement, while critics emphasize the scandals and legal challenges that overshadowed his tenure as president.
The bruising NEC showdown has left the president bowed but stubbornly unbroken.
Stop South Africa’s own man-made calamity from recurring with these simple steps.
The deputy president has been blasted for not coming to his boss’s defence at the NEC meeting.
The public protector defended a complaint she lodged with police over the leaking of audio clips of three interviews.
The proposed Bill would have increased scrutiny of the bank accounts of "prominent individuals", including himself.
President Zuma attended the funeral of former Cuban president Fidel Castro, where he delivered a graceful tribute.
The country needs a mass democratic movement to confront the mismanagement that will otherwise beset it, writes Marius Oosthuizen.
The ANC secretary general made no comments on the dissatisfaction regarding the president’s leadership at the NEC press briefing at Luthuli House.
The ANC president may have survived today, but the fact that the motion was even tabled means that his support is waning
The ANC NEC convened in Irene, outside Tshwane, at the weekend to discuss the party’s leadership succession.
On Tuesday, the ANC will announce the outcomes of its three-day long national executive committee (NEC) meeting.
Today was Abrahams’ deadline day after President Jacob Zuma asked for reasons why Abrahams should remain in his position as NDPP.
Supporters of ANC president Jacob Zuma will today thwart any attempt to oust him.
It takes a particular kind of lawyer to make that shift from defending the state to defending the public, said former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor.
President Zuma is preparing to sideline those ANC members who oppose him in a cabinet re-shuffle
ANC has released a statement denying that President Jacob Zuma will be questioned for bringing the party into disrepute.
Moody’s will release the review of its credit rating, which is at two levels above junk with a negative outlook, later on Friday
The report also prescribes that a judicial inquiry be set up to probe allegations against the president.
The president will appear before the party’s integrity commission on December 3.
For the ANC to survive it must be able to distinguish itself from Zuma.
Every leader in this democratic dispensation understands that they are not above the organisations that nominated them, says the president’s adviser.
Zuma has until mid-December to establish a commission to probe the seemingly lucrative relationship between the state and the Gupta family.
One of the Gupta brothers says the family’s meetings with Cabiniet ministers are ‘being used to peddle lies’.
Calls for President Jacob Zuma to step down did not feature at the meeting between the ANC’s National Working Committee and the party’s veterans.
The courts are becoming the main theatre of political battles in South Africa as feuding for power and access to state funds intensifies.
If the president knows who is stealing, as he claimed in a speech on Friday, he should report them to the police.
The ANC president addressed the organisation’s Moses Mabhida branch in an event intended to "rebuild the party’s political consciousness".
Backdoor deals will be struck as the president refuses to go down without a fight, analysts say.
“These cases are not gathering dust; they are being probed,” Hawks spokesperson Hangwani Mulaudzi said on Thursday.
The president made his latest statements in an affidavit that was filed in response to an urgent application for Abrahams’ suspension.
ANC supporter Zakes Mda says the president will cling on regardless to avoid going to jail.
The ruling party and labour federation face crucial meetings but SA’s president doesn’t care.