Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is the President of South Africa,elected by parliament following his party's victory in the 2009 general election. Zuma is the President of the African National Congress (ANC), the governing political party, and was Deputy President of South Africa from 1999 to 2005.
Zuma became the President of the ANC on 18 December 2007 after defeating incumbent Thabo Mbeki at the ANC conference in Polokwane. Zuma was also a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), briefly serving on the party's Politburo until he left the party in 1990. On 20 September 2008, Thabo Mbeki announced his resignation after being recalled by the African National Congress's National Executive Committee,following a conclusion by Judge Nicholson of improper interference in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), including the prosecution of Jacob Zuma for corruption.
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South African president Jacob Zuma's attempt to have The Spear banned received a set-back after a judge said a ban would be difficult to implement. (May 24)
MORE TOPICS: COURT, SOUTH AFRICA, AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, CONGRESS
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A controversial painting of South African president Jacob Zuma with his genitals hanging out has been vandalised in Johannesburg. (May 22)
MORE TOPICS: AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, COURT, CONGRESS, SOUTH AFRICA
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Ngema is President Jacob Zuma's fourth current wife. (Apr 21)
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Leaders of the emerging world markets and members of the BRICS countries- Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met in New Delhi for its fourth meeting, Thursday. (Mar 29)
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Tibetan exiles protest against Chinese president Hu Jintao at BRICS Summit in New Delhi. (Mar 29)
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The bank that will fund projects in developing countries will be modelled on the lines of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. (Mar 29)
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Emerging economies must be given a fair shot at leading the institutions at the heart of global finance or they will end up going their own way, a challenger for the top job at the World Bank said. (Mar 26)
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South Africa's main opposition party won the right on Tuesday to review potentially damaging documents from a discontinued corruption case against President Jacob Zuma in 2009, a move that could hurt Zuma's chances of re-election as ANC leader. (Mar 20)
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Black economic empowerment laws call for the transfer of about 25 percent of mining equity to black South Africans (Mar 12)
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Tens of thousands of South Africans staged a one-day national strike on Wednesday, hitting mining production, as the biggest labour group in the continent's largest economy flexed its muscles to remind the ruling ANC of its political clout. (Mar 07)
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