ACAS Bulletin 84: The Politics of Jacob Zuma
Edited By Sean Jacobs
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Jacob Zuma, the President of Africa’s most powerful democracy since April 2009, and the recently chosen ‘African President of the Year’ (Sapa 2009), arouses strong passions from his supporters and detractors. A longtime ANC official from a humble peasant background in what is now Kwazulu-Natal province, Zuma was picked by the ANC to be the country’s deputy president under Thabo Mbeki in 1999. The men, close colleagues during exile (and during the early years of negotiating with the Apartheid government), appeared to only enjoy a friendly rivalry at that point. So when it came to predicting who would lead South Africa when Mbeki departed the national stage, most observers did not think of Zuma as a serious contender. Read the rest of the introduction
Table of Contents Introduction: The Politics of Jacob Zuma | Article in PDF Presidentialism and its Pitfalls: Towards a theory of how not to understand the Zuma Presidency | Article in PDF Scoring an own-goal | Article in PDF The Zuma era in ANC history: New crisis or new beginning? | Article in PDF Why is the ‘100% Zulu Boy’ so popular? | Article in PDF Populism and the National Democratic Revolution in South Africa | Article in PDF Jacob Zuma and the evanescent legacy of nineteenth-century Zulu cosmopolitanism and nationalism | Article in PDF Tradition’s desire: The politics of culture in the rape trial of Jacob Zuma | Article in PDF Jacob Zuma’s Robben Island legacy | Article in PDF Review: Zunami! The 2009 South African Elections, edited by Roger Southall and John Daniel | Article in PDF |
