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Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma ( Zulu: [geɮʱejiɬeˈkisa ˈzʱuma]; born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth president of South Africa from 2009 to 2018. He is also referred to by his initials JZ and clan names Nxamalala and Msholozi.
Jun 3, 2024 · Jacob Zuma’s political career could have ended when he was forced to resign six years ago as South Africa’s president over corruption allegations.
Jun 7, 2024 · Jacob Zuma is a South African politician who served as president of South Africa (2009–18). He held several leadership positions in his political party, the African National Congress, including the post of president (2007–17).
Jul 7, 2021 · NKANDLA, South Africa — Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, was taken into custody on Wednesday to begin serving a 15-month prison sentence, capping a stunning downfall for a...
May 20, 2024 · Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been barred from running in next week’s national election over a previous criminal conviction, the latest twist in his return to politics.
May 20, 2024 · South Africa’s top court has blocked former president Jacob Zuma from standing in this month’s general election, an intervention with potential implications for the May 29 poll.
Jun 29, 2021 · Former South African President Jacob Zuma was sentenced to prison by South Africa’s highest court on contempt charges after defying an order to appear before a corruption inquiry.
Jul 8, 2021 · Jacob Zuma is facing multiple corruption charges. On Friday, a judge will rule on whether or not to revoke his arrest, and on Monday the highest court of the land will hear his request to...
Jun 29, 2021 · South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in jail by the country's highest court. He has been given five days to hand himself in to police. Failing that, the...
Former President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma was born on 12 April 1942 at KwaNxamalala in Nkandla, northern KwaZulu-Natal. His early political consciousness was shaped by his cousin Muntukabongwa Zuma, who had fought in the Second World War and later joined the trade union movement and the ANC in Durban.
Jun 29, 2021 · South Africa’s highest court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months in prison on Tuesday, a landmark move in the country’s long-running...
Jun 2, 2024 · Jacob Zuma, who led South Africa for almost nine scandal-tainted years before being ousted by the governing African National Congress, may now play a major role in the country’s political future.
Mar 29, 2024 · South Africa’s election authorities have barred former President Jacob Zuma from standing in the country’s May election, heightening political tensions as the vote approaches in a nation that...
May 20, 2024 · Former South African President Jacob Zuma was disqualified from running for a seat in Parliament in a national election because of a criminal conviction.
May 31, 2024 · Former South African President Jacob Zuma, who now leads the MK Party, waves to supporters after casting his ballot in Nkandla, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 during the ...
Aug 11, 2023 · South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been spared from returning to prison, with officials saying this is to ease overcrowding. Zuma, who was sentenced to 15 months for contempt of...
Jun 5, 2024 · “Jacob Zuma is a force to be reckoned with in South African politics… we never underestimated him,” admitted ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula, as he reflected on his party’s dismal ...
May 22, 2024 · Former South African President Jacob Zuma has launched a scathing attack on some of the country's top judges after he was barred from running for parliament on Monday.
Jul 8, 2021 · South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has handed himself in to police to begin serving a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court. He was admitted to Estcourt Correctional Centre in his...
Jun 1, 2024 · Former president and now leader of the MK Party, Jacob Zuma, with his daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, right, at the Results Operation Centre (ROC) in Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday, June 1, 2024. The African National Congress party has lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
3 days ago · Emeritus Professor of History, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, S.Af. Author of Subjugation and the Roots of Democracy in South Africa: The Struggle for the Eastern Cape, 1800– 1854. Martin Legassick. Fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Dec 15, 2021 · JOHANNESBURG — Former President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, who was released from prison on medical parole in September, must return to serve the rest of a 15-month sentence linked to his...
4 days ago · Item 1 of 2 South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma arrives with his daughter and member of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Duduzile Zuma at the National Results Operation Centre of the IEC, which serves ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Born on April 12, 1942, in Nkandla, a part of South Africa now known as KwaZulu Natal (once Zululand), Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is a controversial figure in South African politics.
Jacob Zuma's tenure as South Africa's fourth post-apartheid president began on 9 May 2009 and ended on 14 February 2018. He held office under a mandate from the parliamentary caucus of the African National Congress (ANC), which had governed South Africa since 1994 and which won comfortable majorities in the 2009 and 2014 national elections.
Jul 7, 2021 · South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has handed himself in to police to begin serving a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court. He was admitted to Estcourt Correctional Centre in...
Jun 29, 2021 · The ConCourt has found former president Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court. Zuma was handed a 15-month prison sentence. The ruling came after Zuma defied the ConCourt's orders that he appear before the State Capture Inquiry.
2 days ago · The official results from national elections last month just don’t add up for Mbalenhle Mthethwa, a loyal adherent of a new political party led by Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s former president ...
Jun 7, 2024 · South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance has accused former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, whose spectacular electoral debut has upended the country’s politics, of ...
May 10, 2024 · Jobless graduates, struggling business owners and army veterans marched through the eastern South African city of Pietermaritzburg this week, chanting the name “Jacob Zuma.”
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