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April 9, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa’s Jacob Zuma Stonewalls on Corruption Charges
South Africa’s Public Protector stated in a recent report that taxpayer money funded improvements to Nkandla, President Jacob Zuma’s private estate. The public protector found this “unconscionable, e…
September 25, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa President Jacob Zuma on Libya and the European Migration Crisis
Jacob Zuma’s anger and poor understanding of the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya apparently still shapes his approach to the West. On September 15, President Zuma briefed the foreign diplomatic corp…
May 23, 2024
South Africa
South Africans Poised to Shake Up Their Governing Status Quo
The provincial and national elections on May 29 come amid waning support for the ruling African National Congress thirty years after South Africa transitioned to democracy.
May 29, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
“Africa Day” in South Africa and President Jacob Zuma’s Rivals
The “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” are hitting President Jacob hard. Earlier this week, there was the controversy over a publicly exhibited oil painting that strongly resembled Zuma with …
March 20, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
South African President Jacob Zuma’s “Let Them Eat Cake” Moment?
There is an apocryphal story that in France, King Louis XVI’s queen Marie Antoinette was once told, “Madame, the people have no bread.” To which she replied, "then let them eat cake." The reality beh…
