It was the women in Jacob Zuma’s life who threw the former South African president’s character flaws into sharpest relief. And it was women who ultimately brought him down
President Jacob Zuma’s wife Nompumelelo MaNtuli-Zuma has been ordered to pay R16 000 to her domestic worker for unlawfully dismissing her.
President Jacob Zuma’s second wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli, was fined a goat in April as punishment for bad behaviour.
President Jacob Zuma’s brother has refuted reports that the president’s wives, Thobeka Madiba and Nompumelelo Ntuli are at each other’s throats.
Security was tight at the marriage of President Jacob Zuma and Thobeka Madiba in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday.
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Jacob Zuma, president of the African National Congress (ANC), husband to two wives, is planning to take a third, a media report said on Sunday. Zuma (65) married 33-year-old Nompumelelo Ntuli, the mother of two of his children, in early January.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma married his fourth wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli of KwaMaphumulo, at his homestead at Nkandla in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday. Between 400 and 500 guests — mainly family — attended the ceremony, which lasted about three hours.