The National Party during its regime of white minority government used the tactic of divide and rule. It had an enemy, it was black and it was in large numbers. The enemy had to be ruled so it was ...

He won that battle Tuesday, besting incumbent Thabo Mbeki to take control of the party, but Zuma now faces the likelihood of a prosecution that, if successful, would make him ineligible to become ...

President Thabo Mbeki is unlikely to go head-to-head with his former deputy Jacob Zuma in a contest for the head of the African National Congress in 2007. This, according to analysts, is "the ...

Zuma also spoke of Mbeki’s passion for international relations and African development and how he made the African Renaissance “the central tenet of the country’s foreign policy outlook”.

Mr. Zuma eventually became deputy president to South Africa’s second democratically-elected president, Thabo Mbeki, in 1999. But Mr. Mbeki fired him after he was implicated in bribery as part of ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa was joined by former President Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma and former Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to congratulate the 5th President of the Republic of Namibia ...

Zuma and Mbeki cannot sit under the same roof, let alone around the same table.” The official added: “It was going to be awkward and just outright wrong if you have both former heads of state ...

Unlike the more aloof Thabo Mbeki or the technocratic Cyril Ramaphosa, Zuma connects with ordinary South Africans through his warmth, humour, and apparent humility. His background as a self ...

Former president Thabo Mbeki reflected on Jacob Zuma’s presidency. Picture: Twitter/@TMFoundation_ Former president Thabo Mbeki has taken aim at his successor Jacob Zuma, suggesting he had ...

June 2, 2005 - A South African court finds businessman Schabir Shaik guilty of bribing Zuma between 1995 and 2002. June 14, 2005 - President Thabo Mbeki fires Zuma over his alleged involvement in ...

Former president Thabo Mbeki ignored Eskom’s warning that the country would run out of power by 2008, while corruption thrived and Eskom was bled dry under former president Jacob Zuma.