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Zuma backs call for media freedom in Zim
African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday declared his support for a call for press freedom in Zimbabwe. "I support what the head of this organisation has said in terms of press freedom in Zimbabwe," he told media representatives from around the world at a World Editors' Forum lunch in Cape Town.
  • Press jailings in Africa 'worrying'
  • Mbeki calls for media accuracy
  • Journalists threatened by murder
  • Zuma case: Court allows documents
    A South African court on Tuesday granted the state permission to obtain documents from Mauritius which prosecutors want for a possible new corruption case against ex-deputy president Jacob Zuma. The Durban High Court decision could be a blow to the resilient and controversial politician.
  • NPA wins order for Mauritius documents
  • Decision expected in battle for Mauritian documents
  • No decision to charge Zuma
  • NPA wins order for Mauritius documents
    The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is allowed to retrieve documents from Mauritius that relate to Jacob Zuma's alleged role in the multibillion-rand arms deal. Judge Jan Hugo of the Durban High Court gave his ruling on Tuesday granting the NPA permission to continue to proceed with a letter of authorisation.
  • Decision expected in battle for Mauritian documents
  • NPA: There has been no decision to charge Zuma
  • Judge questions Zuma blocking bid
  • Decision expected in battle for Mauritian documents
    The state will know on Tuesday whether it has succeeded in obtaining an execution order to allow it to retrieve documents from Mauritius about meetings believed to relate to arms-deal corruption. Judge Jan Hugo heard argument this week from the state, African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturing giant Thint.
  • Judge questions Zuma blocking bid
  • NPA: There has been no decision to charge Zuma
    The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Wednesday it had made no decision on whether to charge African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma. Reports that such a decision had been made were "incorrect and misleading", NPA spokesperson Panyaza Lesufi said.
  • Special report: Jacob Zuma
  • Judge questions blocking bid
  • Businessman confirms Zuma raid
  • Judge questions Zuma blocking bid
    A Durban High Court judge on Tuesday queried Jacob Zuma's defence team over its efforts to stop the retrieval of documents from Mauritius that might relate to arms-deal corruption. He asked Zuma's advocate Kemp J Kemp: "If a person professes his innocence, then why go to all these lengths to prevent the evidence being obtained?"
  • Businessman confirms Zuma raid
  • Zuma, NPA continue battle
  • The great Zuma funding mystery
  • Businessman confirms Zuma raid
    Durban businessman Elias Khumalo on Monday confirmed that his house and offices had been raided by the police in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma. Khumalo said police officers seized a laptop and a brown envelope during the raid.
  • Zuma, NPA battle over documents
  • The great Zuma funding mystery
  • Zuma cautions against 'power-drunk' ANC
  • Zuma, NPA continue battle over Mauritian documents
    The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thint return to the Durban High Court on Tuesday. The NPA will attempt to obtain an execution granting it permission to get documents from Mauritius about meetings believed to relate to Zuma's role in the multibillion-rand arms deal.
  • Special report: Jacob Zuma
  • Police target 'Zuma plot hoaxers'
  • Shaik at dead end, court told
  • The great Zuma funding mystery
    African National Congress deputy president Zuma has said through his lawyer that he is aware of a mysterious report seeking to discredit him, and he hopes law-enforcement agencies will take appropriate action. The report alleges that Zuma was bankrolled by Libyan and Angolan leaders to topple President Thabo Mbeki.
  • Zuma cautions against 'power-drunk' ANC
  • Police target 'Zuma plot hoaxers'
  • Zuma cautions against 'power-drunk' ANC
    African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Jacob Zuma on Saturday warned party members to ensure that the party does not become "power-drunk". Speaking at an ANC branch meeting in Durban, he said: "The ANC is going to rule South Africa for a long time. But, we must not fall into the mistake of being power drunk."
  • Police target 'Zuma plot hoaxers'
  • Shaik trial a 'dry run' for Zuma, court hears
  • ANCYL: Investigate claims of plot to kill Zuma
    Claims of a plot to assassinate African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma should be treated seriously, the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) said on Wednesday. "We call on the police and other relevant law-enforcement agencies to do everything in their power to get to the source of this matter," ANCYL president Fikile Mbalula said.
  • Zuma: A sniper was sent to kill me
  • Zuma's no pastor of ours
  • Zuma's no pastor of ours, says church
    The Full Gospel Church on Tuesday distanced itself from the ordination of African National Congress Deputy President Jacob Zuma as an honourary pastor. Zuma was made honorary pastor at a meeting of independent charismatic churches at Ntuzuma, north of Durban, on Saturday.
  • NPA files order for Mauritian documents
  • Mbeki stronghold threatened
  • ANC chiefs meet on Mbeki third term
  • Insight
    Zuma: A sniper was sent to kill me
    Presidential hopeful and African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma has erected a security wall around himself, saying he fears he could be assassinated ahead of the ANC conference in December. However well grounded, the cloak and dagger claims highlight the growing climate of fear and distrust that has infected South Africa’s political scene.
  • Zuma's no pastor of ours, says church
  • Mbeki stronghold threatened
  • ANC chiefs meet on Mbeki third term
  • Zuma camp lashes out at 'old' Tutu
    African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma’s personal adviser, Elias Khumalo, has hit back at Archbishop Desmond Tutu for publicly attacking Zuma’s integrity, saying the archbishop is growing old and suffers from “selective amnesia”.
  • State: Dropping Zuma charges not in public interest
  • Cosatu: Support for Zuma is support for the 'revolution'
  • Defence: Zuma would have been exonerated at Shaik trial
  • Zuma, Thint go for broke
    The prosecution of Jacob Zuma and arms company Thint is a mess -- but does this justify abandoning the case against them? That’s the question facing Judge Herbert Msimang as the state and the defence gear up for argument on the prosecution application for a postponement of the trial until next year.
  • The truth no one's telling
  • I met with Thetard, says Pahad
  • State files responding papers
  • Zuma trial: 'We'll put Mbeki on the stand'
    Jacob Zuma's upcoming fraud and corruption trial threatens to become the next round of the ugly power struggle in the African National Congress, with the trial potentially being used to embarrass President Thabo Mbeki by placing him on the witness stand.
  • State needs more time for Zuma trial
  • Zuma says media used trial to boost sales
  • Students' congress calls for speedy Zuma trial
  • Zuma trial: The battle of the psychologists
    Jacob Zuma this week sent out the message that the politico-legal drama playing itself out in the Johannesburg High Court was not the personal confrontation onlookers might have mistaken it for. Ever the politican, Zuma, wearing a stylish black chalk-striped suit, started Tuesday morning by shaking hands with the prosecutors and the policemen who arrested him.
    In defence of Kemp J Kemp
    "When I told colleagues that, if I were ever charged with rape, I would love to have Jacob Zuma’s advocate, Kemp J Kemp, as my lawyer, I was met with derisory comments. I want to believe that my colleagues think of me as upright enough never to have to defend myself against such a heinous crime," writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
    Kasrils to testify in rape trial
    Intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils and KwaZulu-Natal finance MEC Zweli Mkhize, both members of the African National Congress's powerful national executive committee, are among key state witnesses lined up to testify at the rape trial of the party’s deputy president, Jacob Zuma, next week.
    Timeline of the Jacob Zuma rape trial
    As the rape trial of former president Jacob Zuma unfolds in the Johannesburg High Court, use this timeline to keep track of the most important events of each day of the trial.
    Timeline of important events in Zuma's life
    Convicted of aspiring to overthrow the government, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on Robben Island, sacked from Parliament by Mbeki and accused of corruption while in office -- we take a look at the key events in Jacob Zuma's chequered past.
    Judge for yourself
    Download the full text of the Jacob Zuma rape-trial judgement (PDF, 2,4Mb).
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    Web extras (PDF)
    Jacob Zuma
  • Call to action by top South African women (PDF)
  • Zuma press statement following rape charge (PDF)
  • Zuma biography (PDF)
  • Shaik judgement (PDF)
  • Mbeki fires Zuma - Cabinet speech (PDF)

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    Timeline
    Incarcerated on Robben Island, appointed deputy president, sacked by Mbeki and charged with rape -- we take a look at the key events.
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    Trial timeline
    Read our day-by-day summaries of the most important events during Jacob Zuma's rape trial in the Johannesburg High Court.
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    VERBATIM
    'And if you can control your body and your sexual urges, then you are a man, my son'
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