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March 31, 2017

South Africa
Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet Reshuffle Bad News for South Africa

As part of a wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle, President Jacob Zuma has fired highly respected Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, along with other long-time stalwarts of the…

Zuma Cabinet Reshuffle

January 4, 2024

United States
Daughters and Sons Guest Event: Fellows’ Book Launch—God, Guns, and Sedition

In God, Guns, and Sedition, Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware offer the definitive account of the rise of far-right terrorism in the United States—and how to counter it. In recent years shocking acts o…

Play People grieving at the site of the site of the church shooting massacre in Charleston, South Carolina

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…

A member of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) stands on the roof of a house they built for an elderly woman, near the homestead of South African President Jacob Zuma (in the background), in Nkandla January 11, 2014.

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…

Zuma Libya

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.

Supporters of former South African president Jacob Zuma's new political party wave the South African flag ahead of the launch of the party's election manifesto ahead of a general election.

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 …

South African President Jacob Zuma speaks during a media briefing at the Union Building in Pretoria, October 24, 2011.