Euronews
| Apr 6, 2013
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital in Pretoria after a nine-day stay for treatment of pneumonia and is now resting at home. It was the third time that he had been taken to hospital since December.
eNews Channel Africa
| Apr 4, 2013
South Africa is bringing all its soldiers home from the Central African Republic, saying they do not belong in a country that is no longer democratic. At least 13 South African troops died in a firefight late last month as rebels entered the capit...
Associated Press
| Mar 28, 2013
Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first black president, has been hit by a lung infection again and is in a hospital, the presidency said Thursday.
Euronews
| Mar 1, 2013
Eight South African police officers have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a taxi driver who was dragged behind a police vehicle. Mido Macia from Mozambique died from head injuries and internal bleeding after being arres...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Dec 27, 2012
Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has been released from hospital, and is receiving medical care at his home in Johannesburg, the South African government has disclosed. A spokesman for President Jacob Zuma confirmed that Mr Mandela was t...
Euronews
| Dec 25, 2012
At a Christmas mass in Soweto, churchgoers prayed for former South African president Nelson Mandel's speedy recovery. The 94-year-old has been in hospital in the capital Pretoria for the past two weeks being treated for a lung infection and galls...
France 24
| Dec 18, 2012
South African President Jacob Zuma scored a thumping victory in an ANC leadership contest on Tuesday with 2,986 out of 3, 977 party member votes, making him the odds-on favourite to retain the presidency after general elections in 2014. This come...
Channel 4 News
| Dec 16, 2012
As iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela is recovering from surgery in the hospital, his ANC party is undergoing a battle over the future leadership of the country. It has been twenty years since Mandela made history, and many are wondering w...
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 5, 2012
Anglo American Platinum, the world's largest platinum producer, has sacked up to 12,000 miners in South Africa for staging what the company said is an unlawful strike. The industrial action has also spread to other mining industries with over 75,0...
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 26, 2012
The former youth leader of the African National Congress has been granted bail after being charged with money laundering. Julius Malema says the allegations are a political plot to silence his criticism of president Jacob Zuma. Al Jazeera's Haru...
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...Jacob Zuma has, in terms of section 174(6) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, and on the advice of the Judicial Service ...
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, the governing political party, and was Deputy President of South Africa from 1999 to 2005. Zuma is also referred to by his initials JZ and his clan name Msholozi. Zuma became the President of the ANC on 18 December 2007 after defeating incumbent Thabo Mbeki at the ANC conference in Polokwane. He was re-elected as ANC leader at the ANC conference in Manguang on 18 December 2012, defeating challenger Kgalema Motlanthe by a large majority. Zuma was also a member of the South African Communist Party, 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. The recall came after South African High Court Judge Christopher Nicholson ruled that Mbeki had improperly interfered with the operations of the National Prosecuting Authority, including the prosecution of Jacob Zuma for corruption.
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