By Rob Rose and Carol Paton
ANC candidate’s financial backers are determined to stay under cover
Does Jacob Zuma have his own banknote printing press? That seems to be the only way the would-be ANC and SA president can be paying for his international jaunts. For despite a series of high-cost trips, no-one admits funding the cash-strapped [...]

By Carol Paton
Will Jacob Zuma and his allies have a winner-takes-all approach to the election of the all-powerful ANC national executive committee at this month’s national conference?
If so, some of the most respected figures in the ANC could be in danger of being excluded. These include ANC strategist and head of policy in the presidency [...]

By BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI
Of all the mistakes, missteps and even misfortunes of this government, nothing comes close – in proportion or lunacy – to the insanity that is the arms deal, which has poisoned the political atmosphere and tainted everything it touched.
As Thabo Mbeki’s term draws to a close, the chattering classes become ever more [...]

By Prakash Naidoo and Jacqui Pile
For someone who once said he wanted his day in court, Jacob Zuma seems intent on delaying it as long as possible. The landmark supreme court of appeal (SCA) judgment earlier this month gave the Scorpions permission to use crucial documents seized in raids on Zuma’s premises and from his [...]

By Carol Paton
Jacob Zuma – traditionalist, polygamist and sometime tribalist – has become the Left’s unstoppable tsunami.
How did it happen?
Of all his generation of ANC leaders, Zuma is possibly the most conservative. He had humble beginnings in rural Nkandla in KwaZulu Natal. A boy from a poor family whose mother became [...]

By Carol Paton
What are the chances that if Jacob Zuma becomes president of the ANC, he will become president of SA, too?
Rather good. His showing in the ANC provincial general councils last weekend was overwhelming. They are the bodies with the power to make the formal nominations to the national conference.
A close race had been [...]

By Carol Paton
Zuma has kept his ideology close to his chest in his campaign for the leadership of the ANC. That has hidden the nature of the man from public scrutiny. The FM delves into who he is and what impact he could have on SA.
Jacob Zuma says nothing will change on the policy front [...]

By David Williams
“He said absolutely nothing.” That was the verdict of a distinguished retired academic on Jacob Zuma’s after-dinner address to the members (mostly white, all well-heeled) of the 1926 Club, meeting at the Rand Club in central Johannesburg two weeks ago.
Normally the monthly meeting of the 1926 Club – a formal discussion society that, [...]