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April 4, 2017

South Africa
Uncertainties Mount Whether Zuma’s Presidency Will Survive

Voices calling for President Jacob Zuma to resign or to be removed from office are getting louder in the wake of his cabinet reshuffle and removal of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. Within his Afric…

Jacob Zuma Cabinet Reshuffle

April 9, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa’s Jacob Zuma Stonewalls on Corruption Charges

South Africa’s Public Protector stated in a recent report that taxpayer money funded improvements to Nkandla, President Jacob Zuma’s private estate. The public protector found this “unconscionable, e…

A member of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) stands on the roof of a house they built for an elderly woman, near the homestead of South African President Jacob Zuma (in the background), in Nkandla January 11, 2014.

December 18, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa’s Zuma Sweeps ANC Convention, but Fundamental Dilemmas Unresolved

Jacob Zuma was re-elected as the African National Congress (ANC) party president and Cyril Ramaphosa the deputy president. They won by large margins. So, too, did Executive Committee candidates who s…

 South Africa's President Zuma celebrates his re-election as party President alongside newly-elected party Deputy President Ramaphosa and re-elected Chairperson Mbete at the National Conference of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in Bloemfontein 18/12/2012.

September 29, 2011

China
China, South Africa, and the Dalai Lama

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama (R), presents the International Campaign for Tibet's Light of Truth Award to South African Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu at a ceremony in Brussels Ju…

China, South Africa, and the Dalai Lama

September 9, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa’s Possible Presidential Successors

Jacob Zuma’s term as president of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) ends in 2017; his term as South Africa’s president ends in 2019. Zuma’s successor as ANC president will almo…

Zumas