A POLITICIAN SANS POLICIES SEEKING POWER
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 Johannesbu...

A MATTER OF TIMING
By Carol Paton
The ANC passed a resolution that the president of the party should preferably' become the president of the country What are the chances that if Jacob Zuma becomes president of the ANC, he will become president of SA, too? Rather ...

POLAR OPPOSITES
By Carol Paton
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 a domestic worker in the suburbs of ...

THE CHANCES OF CHARGES
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 documen...