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South Africa's Zuma Bows Before Apex Court

President Jacob Zuma says he will pay for improvements made to his rural home at government expense, but denies he deliberately violated the Constitution in resisting earlier orders to pay.

South Africa: Dramatic Night in South Africa Leaves President Hanging On By a Thread

The Conversation Africa, 2 April 2016

South African President Jacob Zuma apologised to his country on national television just before 8 in the evening after a dramatic 36 hours that ended with him hanging onto power by… Read more »
South Africa: President Zuma "Unreservedly" Welcomes Concourt Ruling

SAnews.gov.za, 1 April 2016

President Jacob Zuma on Friday evening, in a televised address to the nation, said he "unreservedly" welcomes the Constitutional Court's judgment that he pay back some of the money… Read more »
South Africa: Mandela's Co-Accused Asks Zuma to Resign

allAfrica, 2 April 2016

One of the few remaining African National Congress activists who went on trial and was jailed with Nelson Mandela has called on President Jacob Zuma to step down. This is the full… Read more »
South Africa: Treasury to Set Up Nkandla Team

SAnews.gov.za, 1 April 2016

National Treasury is to set up a team as part of efforts to execute the Constitutional Court judgment stating that it should determine a percentage of the costs that President… Read more »
South Africa: Zuma Denies 'Knowingly' Violating Constitution

Govt of SA, 1 April 2016

Fellow South Africans, Read more »

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An earlier government report described this addition to President Zuma's house as a "fire pool" for firefighting purposes. But the Constitutional Court called it what it looks like - a swimming pool (built at government expense),

South Africa: Ten Reasons SA Doesn't Suck Right Now - March Edition

The Daily Vox, 1 April 2016

It's been a heavy month.The long weekends have come and gone. Is there really that much for South Africans to be happy about right now? AAISHA DADI PATEL thinks so, and lists ten… Read more »
South Africa: Nkandla Judgment - High Noon for President Zuma

ISS, 1 April 2016

Institutions matter. Read more »
South Africa: Zuma Diplomacy Promotes His Business Interests - Claim

ISS, 30 March 2016

It's long been suspected that the domestic ‘state capture' under the Zuma administration, which is so much in the news currently, also applies very much to South Africa's… Read more »
South Africa: ANC Fails the Constitution

DA, 1 April 2016

The statement this evening by the President shows clearly that he has no idea what the Constitution requires of him or how South Africans view him. Read more »
South Africa: Zuma Falls Short - Buthelezi

IFP, 1 April 2016

Statement by Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi MP, President Of the Inkatha Freedom Party: Read more »