Tag Archives: President Jacob Zuma

Britain’s Daily Mail reports – Jacob Zuma spends £17.5mill...

November 25, 2012 2 comments

One of Britain’s respected and popular newspapers, the Daily Mail, is reporting that South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, has spent £17.5million on his home town palace as his country is ...

Justice seems to be a long way off for dead miners in South Africa

September 15, 2012 no comments

JOHANNESBURG, Siyabulela Debedu - (IPS) - The South African Police Service members who were involved in a bloodbath with striking workers at the Marikana mine in North West Province could face murder...

President Jacob Zuma should resign – As 270 miners are charged w...

August 30, 2012 1 comment

After sending his reckless police force, some of them remnants of the apartheid era, to force miners to work, by shooting and gunning them down, killing 34 innocent miners who were legitimately prote...

South Africa takes steps to further strengthen diplomatic relations an...

October 17, 2011 no comments

FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE - The government and people of the Republic of South Africa have today (Monday) 17th October, 2011 expressed determination to further strengthen the existing diplomatic relatio...

The African Union would not recognise the rebel National Transitional ...

August 26, 2011 no comments

South African President Jacob Zuma has said that the African Union (AU) would not yet recognise the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as the sole representative of the Libyan people until hos...

Danish NGO sends protest letter to President Jacob Zuma over South Afr...

August 10, 2011 no comments

Africa Contact, a Danish NGO and former anti-apartheid movement, has sent a letter of protest to South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma over his government’s grant of loan to Swaziland. The ...

Mugabe fails to get rid of Zuma in Zimbabwe crisis mediation

August 4, 2011 no comments

Zanu PF and Mugabe have failed to have their unconventional way of removing South African President Jacob Zuma as the mediator in the Zimbabwean crisis. Mugabe’s party started its barrage of attacks ...

Economic bailout for Swaziland as South Africa gives its neighbour a $...

August 3, 2011 no comments

The government of South Africa has agreed to a $368-million loan to neighbouring Swaziland, just one quarter of the amount sought by King Mswati III to avoid his government’s financial collapse...

South Africa convicts man after giving President Zuma a ‘totR...

July 28, 2011 no comments

Prosecutors sin South Africa have said that a man who spilled his glass of whiskey on the president has been convicted of assault.Daryl Peense was arrested and charged with assault on President Jacob...

South African youth leader Julius Malema is accused of funding a lavis...

July 24, 2011 no comments

Julius Malema, South Africa’s youth league leader, has been accused of funding a lavish lifestyle through private business dealings by a  local South African newspaper . The newspaper, City Pre...

South African President Jacob Zuma: NATO has misused Security Council ...

June 15, 2011 no comments

The President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has said in a wide-ranging speech to parliament, that he had “spoken out against the misuse of” a U.N. Security Council resolution supported by ...

NATO ignores Zuma’s call for ceasefire and continues pounding Tr...

May 31, 2011 no comments

Libya’s capital came under heavy pounding from NATO bombs only hours after South Africa’s president left following talks that produced only a commitment to a peace plan already rejected b...

Will Zuma’s South Africa demand democratisation in Swaziland?

May 27, 2011 no comments

“I believe that king Mswati III is under immense pressure even from his closest buddy, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma,” says Sikelela Dlamini from the Swaziland United Democratic Front, an umbre...

Zimbabwe’s foreign minister says government did not attack Zuma

April 15, 2011 no comments

HARARE, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – Zimbabwe’s foreign minister Friday denied his government had attacked South African President Jacob Zuma and the regional bloc SADC following unusually shar...

Mugabe makes attempt to distance himself after slamming Zuma

April 6, 2011 1 comment

HARARE, April 6, 2011 (AFP) – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe distanced himself Wednesday from state media’s blistering comments on South African President Jacob Zuma, in a bid to end a ...

Reckless Mugabe vows to resist regional pressure and says Zuma cannot ...

April 1, 2011 1 comment

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Friday vowed to resist pressure from fellow African leaders to resolve tensions in his power-sharing government with Morgan Tsvangirai. ”The MDC thin...