Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been barred from contesting in next week's elections, South Africa's top court ruled Monday.

Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, in court last year. Mr. Zuma had served just two months of a 15-month sentence for defying a court order to testify before a national inquiry on ...

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma repeated his allegation about discrepancies in counting of votes, even as election results showed that his new uMkhonto weSizwe Party had eaten into ...

Six years after South Africa's scandal-plagued former president Jacob Zuma was pushed out of office, he is backing a new party against his longtime political home the African National Congress in ...

Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa who stepped down in 2018, has been barred from running for Parliament due to a previous criminal conviction.

South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) party faces a mammoth challenge as it needs to form a government with its political rivals after suffering a seismic blow in last week’s election.

Jacob Zuma, who resigned as South Africa’s president in shame in 2018, is now staging his biggest comeback act yet by running in next month’s parliamentary elections with an upstart opposition ...

Former South African President Jacob Zuma is threatening legal action to stop the announcement of the country's election results scheduled for Sunday.

Former president Jacob Zuma’s old isiZulu nickname is ringing around South Africa again. Phunyuka bamphethe (literally meaning “s/he who always escapes from custody” or “escape artist ...

South Africa faces an unusual national election this year, its seventh vote since transitioning from white minority rule to a democracy 30 years ago.

World News Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?