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Jacob Zuma
Jacob Zuma is a South African politician.
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AfricaLink News: 17 June 2024
South Africa's former President Zuma's MK party to join opposition +++ Israel's premier Netanyahu dissolves war cabinet
South Africa: Zuma's MK party to join opposition alliance
Jacob Zuma's MK party says it wants to coordinate efforts against the ANC-led coalition government.
Jacob Zuma's reemergence
Jacob Zuma has reemerged as a political force after his newly formed MK party performed well in the 2024 elections.
Likely scenarios for South Africa's next government
South Africa's political future now lies in coalitions.
South Africa: ANC eyes potential coalition partners
Informal talks between party bigwigs are well underway, but who do South Africans want to form their new government?
Africalink Podcast: South African voters shun ANC
ANC loses majority support ++DA rules out coalition with Malema's EFF party+++Jacob Zuma's party vows to take back power
S. Africa: ANC says president's resignation is 'no-go area'
South Africa's ruling party faces difficult coalition talks amid allegations of vote rigging by former president Zuma.
South Africa election: ANC faces coalition government
With more than 66% of the votes counted, the ruling African National Congress will likely lose the majority.
Who are South Africa's presidential candidates?
Nearly 28 million South Africans will head to the polls on May 29. These are the main contenders to watch.
South Africa: Top court bars ex-President Zuma from election
South Africa is set to hold a general election next week in which the ruling ANC could lose its majority.
AfricaLink on Air — 22 April 2024
West Africa counterterrorism summit +++ South Africa’s ANC loses a trademark battle with Zuma's party
South Africa: Zuma's MK party surges amid ANC struggles
Will South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma run for president on behalf of a new political organization?
South Africa: Court rules Jacob Zuma can run in election
The ban on the former president's candidacy for the newly formed MK party has been lifted despite a criminal conviction.
AfricaLink on Air — 04 April 2024
South African parties commit to peaceful campaigns ahead of elections+++Nigerians, Nigeriens cheer border reopening
South Africa's Jacob Zuma barred from running in election
The former president has been expelled from the ruling ANC and has been campaigning for the newly formed MK party.
South Africa faces decisive 2024 election
Thirty years since the first post-apartheid election, voters are fed up and the ANC could lose its majority.
AfricaLink on Air - 27 February 2024
Who will win South Africa’s 2024 election? +++ Analysis: South Africa election campaigns ramp up
AfricaLink on Air - 30 January 2024
Former South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma banned from the ANC party +++ All the latest AFCON updates
South Africa: Zuma denounces ANC ahead of election
Former President Jacob Zuma has come out against his African National Congress, in a sign of growing party division.
South Africa: Jacob Zuma briefly jailed, quickly released
The former president's legal issues have taken yet another turn after he was released straight after reporting to prison
South Africa: Zuma in Russia for 'health reasons'
The former president who had his bid to avoid returning to prison denied, is in Russia for medical treatment.
Gupta brothers: UAE rejects South Africa extradition request
South Africa learned with "shock and dismay" that the UAE rejected the extradition of the graft-accused Gupta brothers.
German firm faces payback bill in South Africa
Previous lucrative deals clinched by German software giant SAP in South Africa have returned to haunt the company.
Zuma slams corruption report as 'irrational'
A report has claimed South Africa's former president, Jacob Zuma, is "a critical player" in a massive graft scheme.
South Africa's 'state capture' investigation wraps up
The Commission of Inquiry into "state capture" presents a compelling case against the former president and his cronies.
President Cyril Ramaphosa's mysterious millions
South Africa's leader faces accusations of having stolen and concealed millions of dollars at one of his game farms.
Gupta brothers arrested in UAE for South Africa graft case
The Indian-born businessmen stand accused of being at the center of a massive web of state corruption in South Africa.
S. Africa's Ramaphosa appoints new chief justice
Judge Raymond Zondo, who found evidence of corruption under the Zuma administration, will become the new chief justice.
AfricaLink on Air — 11 February 2022
Alleged state-sponsored torture, abductions, and killings in Uganda
South Africa: Police failed in response to deadly riots
A public report into last year's unrest found that intel failures led to riots where hundreds of people died.
AfricaLink on Air - 05 January 2022
S.Africa's Zondo report+++China-Kenya ties+++AFCON final preps+++Liberia's opposition disunity+++Namibia's brown hyenas
Zuma-era graft report given to President Cyril Ramaphosa
Almost four years after it began, South Africa's Zondo Commission has completed the first part of its anti-graft report.
South Africa: Jacob Zuma can appeal prison return ruling
The High Court has ruled that the former president be allowed to appeal a decision setting aside medical parole.
South Africa: Jacob Zuma ordered back to jail
A court found the former South African president's medical parole "unlawful."
AfricaLink on Air - 22 October 2021
The Tigray conflict in Ethiopia escalates +++ The Africa YouthConnekt summit wraps up in Accra, Ghana
South Africa's top court upholds Zuma's sentence
Former President Jacob Zuma's attempt to overturn his prison sentence is dismissed as "litigious skullduggery".
AfricaLink on Air — 16 September 2021
ECOWAS leaders meet over Guinea coup++France kills Islamic State leader in Sahel
Economic aftermath of 2021 South African riots
South Africans are feeling the impact caused by the riots after the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.
Zuma released from prison on medical parole
The former South African president underwent surgery in early August and could even be allowed to be treated at home.
S.Africa: Ramaphosa testifies at corruption probe
President Ramaphosa justified remaining a part of ex-President Jacob Zuma's government, saying he tried to fight graft.
South Africa's Zuma transferred to hospital from prison
Just days before his corruption trial is set to resume, the 79-year-old has been hospitalized. Details remain unclear.
Most of South Africa's looted shops still shut
Two weeks after a wave of deadly violence, the process of rebuilding and reopening looted shops has yet to begin.
AfricaLink on Air - 19 July 2021
Nigeria puts states on COVID alert +++ Kenya counts cost of fuel tank er explosion
South Africa: Zuma seeks corruption trial delay
The state accuses Zuma of bribery, fraud and money laundering in a $2 billion weapons deal.
S. Africa: Zuma's trial to resume amid unrest
The trial of the former South African president is set to resume despite the violence that shook the country this week.
Ramaphosa says he won't allow 'anarchy'
Security agencies in South Africa say they have identified the alleged instigators of the violence in the country.
South Africa to deploy 25,000 troops amid unrest
The move to mobilize troops comes after days of violence and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces.
South Africa's deadly unrest reveals state failures
Claus Stäcker
The deadly violence wasn't just sparked by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma. The reasons run much deeper.
South Africa's looters pounce after Zuma jailing
Rampant looting has taken over following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma. Citizens are left to bear the cost.
Deadly unrest in South Africa — in pictures
More than 70 people died after protesters took to the street against the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.
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