Bloomberg | South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma’s newly formed party vowed to nationalize land and banks, withdraw from the International Criminal Court and expand the...
AP | Former South African President Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections, the Independent Electoral Commission has ruled. The commission said at...
Former South African president Jacob Zuma cannot be the president of the country after this year’s general elections because of his criminal record. This was clarified...
AFP | South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma reported back to prison on Friday only to be swiftly released, in a government move lashed by the...
AP | The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma was postponed again Monday as he seeks to have the lead prosecutor removed from...
Reuters | Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been set free following the expiry of his prison sentence for contempt of court, a government department...
Reuters | A South African court on Tuesday granted another adjournment in former president Jacob Zuma’s arms deal corruption trial, as his legal team pushes for...
AP | The corruption trial in South Africa of former President Jacob Zuma has been postponed again on Monday pending the outcome of the ex-leader’s appeal...
Reuters | A South African judge on Wednesday dismissed a bid by former president Jacob Zuma to appeal an earlier ruling rejecting his attempt to have...
AFP | South Africa’s High Court ordered former president Jacob Zuma to return to jail after setting aside the decision to release him on medical parole,...
Zuma still faces corruption charges in a separate case in which he is accused of receiving bribes from French arms firm Thales.
Zuma has been granted medical parole, after serving two months of a 15-month sentence for contempt of court.
Zuma is facing 18 charges including corruption and money laundering and has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Zuma faces 16 charges of fraud, graft and racketeering
AP | The corruption trial of former South African president Jacob Zuma, who is currently in prison, has been postponed to August 10 as it is...
AP | A South African regional court is to rule Friday on whether it will block an order by the country’s highest court for the arrest...
Ruling sets a precedent for South Africa and benchmark for the continent
Bloomberg | Former South African President Jacob Zuma appeared in court on Wednesday to face corruption, money laundering and racketeering charges, and pleaded not guilty on...
Bloomberg | It was a showdown more than 3 years in the making. Escalating tensions in South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) finally came to...
Angry South Africans have come out in their thousands to demand President Jacob Zuma’s resignation. Protesters in 3 of South Africa’s largest cities demanded President Jacob...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) said on Tuesday it did not support calls for President Jacob Zuma to stand down after his appointment of...
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma is expected to receive a frosty reception when he opens parliament on Thursday, with opponents set to disrupt his nationally-televised state...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File South African President Jacob Zuma will be delivering the first State of the Nation address of his second term on...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma was on Saturday admitted to a Pretoria hospital for tests following a bout of exhaustion,...
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma was today admitted to hospital for tests following a bout of exhaustion, his office said. “Doctors are satisfied with his condition,” his...
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has called for an expeditious approval and deployment of a regional deterrence and protection force to end ongoing violations of the...
South African President Jacob Zuma has replaced well -respected Finance minister, Pravin Gordhan and promoted his deputy, Nhlanhla Nene to the key post in a surprise...
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday economic growth in the continent’s most advanced economy would be the focus. Zuma said this as he was...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) won this year’s election, guaranteeing it another five years at the helm of Africa’s most advanced nation, but the...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress was headed for a comfortable win as vote-counting in South Africa’s elections drew to a close Friday while key...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party led its rivals in early election results on Thursday after a campaign in which the opposition tried to...
South African President Jacob Zuma has unveiled a bust of Nelson Mandela, a day after the 20th anniversary of the first post-apartheid elections. Zuma said on...
South Africa marked 2 decades of multi-racial democracy on Sunday, still feeling the loss of Nelson Mandela and in sombre mood just 10 days before elections...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File Twenty years after the euphoria of South Africa’s first democratic elections swept liberation hero Nelson Mandela to power, the governing...
With less than two weeks to South Africa’s elections, political parties are stepping up their campaigns to win the hearts and minds of close to 26...
South African lawmakers are in the process of enacting legislation that will seek to increase the involvement of black citizens and women in the economy. With...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File South Africa’s main opposition party named 2 parliamentary officials to a panel that will probe President Jacob Zuma’s response to...
South Africa’s Public Protector has released a report revealing improper use of public money on the upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s private home, saying the president...
South Africa’s electoral body, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says all is set for the country’s fifth democratic elections, set for 7 May. IEC chief electoral...
South Africa’s biggest union has called a one-day work stoppage for Wednesday to highlight youth unemployment in the country, the union said. The 340,000-member National Union...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images South African President Jacob Zuma said the government must push for increased black ownership of the continent’s...
The spokesperson of South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) stated that the electoral body will deploy new technologies as part of its preparations to administer a...
South Africa’s economy cannot afford more mine labor unrest, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Monday, as the platinum industry’s main trade union served notice on...
South Africa’s largest trade union on Friday said it will no longer back the ruling African National Congress, a tectonic shift in the country’s politics ahead...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP More than 70 leaders from across the world, some of them locked in enmity, are flying to...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images South African President Jacob Zuma has declared a week of mourning across South Africa for Nelson Mandela...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/Reuters/Mike Hutchings One of the most beloved leaders of the 20th century, Nelson Mandela, the father of modern South Africa...
Rescue workers sift through the debris of the collapsed building in Tongaat, South Africa. PHOTO/Mario Lungelo via Twitter (Reuters) – Rescue workers called off the search...
Business leaders from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of emerging economies met Tuesday in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss trade with...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President Nelson Mandela was released Wednesday from the hospital after being treated for a...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African leader Nelson Mandela will probably spend Christmas Day in a hospital because his doctors...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File AP – South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to keep President Jacob Zuma as the head...
South African President Jacob Zuma (l) and his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe. PHOTO/File AP – South Africa’s Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will compete next week against President...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela was admitted to a military hospital Saturday for medical tests, though...
South African President Jacob Zuma (l) and his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe. PHOTO/File South Africa’s deputy president says he is “agonizing” over whether he would accept leading...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File As the labor unrest in the mining sector in South Africa eases, a politically battered but defiant President Jacob Zuma...
Zimbabwe’s heavyweight neighbour South Africa on Monday dismissed a push by President Robert Mugabe for new polls without long-delayed reforms required by the country’s unity deal....
Julius Malema. PHOTO/File The African National Congress (ANC) expelled the party’s youth leader late Wednesday, the latest attempt to control a figure who has angered his...
Nationalization is not an option for South Africa’s troubled mining industry, the country’s mining minister told an international audience Tuesday. A nationalization debate within mining minister...
Julius Malema Julius Malema has lost an appeal against a decision by South Africa’s ruling party to suspend him. He was suspended from the African National...
South Africa’s fiery youth leader Julius Malema (pictured) on Monday asked the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to set aside his five-year suspension, in a bellwether...
IMF Head Christine Lagarde (l) with South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Reuters It was a hot summer day when Christine Lagarde, the head of the International...
South Africa President., Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Reuters South African President Jacob Zuma told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that it “completely ignored” the African Union (AU)...
Against all odds, the party of Nelson Mandela has transformed a nation where just 20 years ago black South Africans could not vote, and beaches and...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/REUTERS South African President Jacob Zuma met Tuesday with an envoy from Libya’s National Transitional Council seeking help from Pretoria in...
In a strong slap at a young but powerful politician, South Africa’s governing party fired its controversial youth leader Thursday and suspended him from the African...
South Africa’s president says he has suspended the national police chief and fired two Cabinet ministers implicated in graft. In an announcement Monday aired live on...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The black man who leads the youth wing of South Africa's governing party has no right to sing a song some whites find...
President Jacob Zuma (pictured), has encouraged the instrospection of black business organizations, called for non-racial business unity and decried the absence of black industrialists “who own...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - The U.N. has urged African leaders to "encourage new leadership" in Libya...
David Cameron: Free trade in Africa shows a way out of poverty Fifty years ago, per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in South Korea was twice...
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — Organizers printed Moammar Gadhafi’s portrait and mounted it on one of the flags decorating the road to the African Union summit venue...
First lady Michelle Obama arrived in South Africa on Monday for the start of a weeklong trip that officials have said will focus on youth leadership...
