President Jacob Zuma has ordered corruption buster Willie Hofmeyr’s special investigating unit to go after millions stolen from the poor by crooked officials and service providers. The money was to have been spent by Minister Lulu Xingwana’s Department of Arts & Culture mainly to help poor communities benefit from the World Cup. Xingwana named seven ...
President Jacob Zuma has expressed his condolences to the family and friends of 18 elderly people, who perished in a fire at the Pieter Wessels retirement home in Nigel. He says while the cause of the fire is still unknown, the advanced age and vulnerability of the elderly residents probably made them fall victim to ...
President Jacob Zuma walked away with R16 000 in cash after betting on the winning horse, Bold Silvano, at the Vodacom Durban July on Saturday. KwaZulu-Natal Racing Board chairman Moga Pillay said Pres Zuma had placed the bet “based on his own instinct” and bet on three other horses with the assistance of Transport Minister ...
The Presidency has announced major changes in the office of President Jacob Zuma following tension and infighting since the political transition last year. An aide referred to the changes as “providing decisive leadership” after “these disasters”. Independent Newspapers reported on Monday that more advisers would be chopped, and the Presidency confirmed that Zuma’s economic adviser ...
Caprikat and Foxwhelp, both subsidiaries of Zuma’s Impinda Group and registered in Switzerland, were awarded two oil blocks in the Lake Albert region in the eastern Congo. The Mail & Guardian reported last year that Encha Group, controlled by Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke via a family trust, had been pursuing oil rights in Albert ...
Africa was seeking equal partnerships at forums like the G20 and G8 for meaningful growth and development, President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday. Speaking from Canada, where he is to attend the G20 summit on Sunday and Monday, Zuma said that Africa had seen substantial growth over the past couple of years. He said Sub-Saharan Africa ...
President Jacob Zuma addressed foreign leaders at a G20 gathering in Canada on Saturday, calling for more meaningful partnerships between the international community and Africa in order to promote growth and development in the continent. “As Africa we bring to the G20 Summit the key message that we must, together as the developing and developed worlds, promote ...
In about a week’s time President Jacob Zuma will be discarding his suit for a soccer kit and boots. Zuma, a keen soccer player in his youth, will be captaining a team at a Unity Cup tournament on July 3 before the World Cup quarter-final game at Cape Town Stadium. The tournament is part of ...
South African President Jacob Zuma will attend celebrations in Kinshasa marking the 50th anniversary of independence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and King Albert II of Belgium, the former colonial power, are also expected to attend the June 30 events. “This is a ...
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday expressed his condolences to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva following the deaths of 45 people in flooding in north eastern Brazil. “At a time when we, the people of the south, should all be rejoicing on our achievements, I have learnt with a deep sense of sadness of ...
President Jacob Zuma declared Africa “open for business” in an address to business leaders before the G20 meeting in Toronto, Canada, on Thursday. Speaking at a lunch-time meeting, attended by Stephen Hayes, President and CEO of the Corporate Council on Africa and Lucien Bradet, president and CEO of the Canadian Council on Africa among others, ...
President Jacob Zuma on Sunday, June 06, 2010, welcomed soccer teams, fans and tourists to South Africa, five days ahead of the opening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. “We are truly pleased and humbled to host the world in our country for this historical and extraordinary event.” Zuma was addressing local and international media ...
President Jacob Zuma has challenged South African and Indian businesses to raise bilateral trade to $10 billion (R76.8bn) a year by 2012. “Whilst our trade has been focused on the exchange of valuable commodities, raw materials and feedstock, we believe true potential benefits lie in the expansion of value-added trade,” Zuma said in India ...
ANC Youth League President Julius Malema has re-affirmed the league’s support for President Jacob Zuma to serve two terms. Speaking at the Kwazulu-Natal youth league elective conference yesterday, Malema accused what he called “disgruntled forces” of spreading lies about the youth league’s leadership plan to abandon their support for Zuma. He says this is part ...
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday presided over the opening of Soccer City, the new 94 700-seat stadium that will host the opening and final matches of the World Cup. The stadium’s first professional match drew a crowd of 76 000 – all the seats that were made available for the game – for the final ...
President Jacob Zuma assured angry Balfour residents on Saturday that the government had not forgotten about them. He addressed a crowd at Mpumalanga’s Siyathemba Stadium and stressed that government was working tirelessly to resolve service delivery problems in the area. “We must not be agitated. We must leave the matter to government,” he said. Zuma ...
President Jacob Zuma will perform the opening rites at Soccer City when about 75 000 people attend the Nedbank Cup Final between Wits University and AmaZulu on Saturday. What has elevated the occasion to being historic is the fact that it will be the first game to be played at Soccer City since it was ...
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday urged South Africans to “be good” for the duration of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. “In this time, we need good South Africans. Let them just for four weeks be good. Just for four weeks,” he said at a women’s prayer meeting at Zamdela Stadium in Sasolburg. “When you are ...
President Jacob Zuma will be the main speaker during the launch of the Imvuselelo Campaign in a national ANC rally at KaMhlushwa Stadium in Nkomazi, Mpumalanga, on Sunday. The rally, under the theme “Building and Consolidating the Unity of the Movement towards 2012”, starts at 9am. ANC National Executive Committee members, leaders of the alliance, ...
President Jacob Zuma has joined thousands of mourners in expressing his condolences to the family of Dr Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, who passed away on Friday. Dr Van Zyl Slabbert died at the age of 70 after spending some time at a Johannesburg Hospital. President Zuma said Van Zyl Slabbert’s visionary leadership lives on in ...
President Jacob Zuma’s mediation effort in Zimbabwe is being thwarted by failure by the three principals in the Harare coalition to meet to discuss the final report submitted by their negotiators, a top South African official has said. The talks to iron out issues still outstanding from implementation of a 2008 power-sharing agreement between President ...
President Jacob Zuma yesterday (15 May 2010) bowed to persistent media and opposition calls and said that the much-vaunted performance contracts he is concluding with the members of his Cabinet would be made public when the process had been completed. Until now, both he and the minister in the Presidency for monitoring and evaluation, Collins ...
President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday congratulated Britain on the formation of a coalition government and the appointment of David Cameron as its new Prime Minister. “The South African government is looking forward to working with the new government in consolidating and strengthening political and economic relations that exist between the two countries,” Zuma said in ...
President Jacob Zuma’s ringing endorsement of the National Planning Commission’s independence has emboldened Planning Minister Trevor Manuel. Manuel said on Wedenesday he would be involved in the budgeting process along with the Treasury and Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, and he stressed that planning and budgeting always go together. Manuel’s comment suggests he is claiming territory ...
All the controversies of President Jacob Zuma’s first year in office were thrown at him yesterday as opposition parties levelled unprecedented criticism at the head of state during debate on his budget vote in the National Assembly. In response to a lacklustre speech from a subdued-looking Zuma, opposition leaders mentioned his private life, increased spending ...
The 2010 Fifa World Cup will change the face of South Africa forever, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. “Our country will never be the same again, thanks to the World Cup,” he told the National Assembly during debate on the presidency budget vote. “The physical landscape is changing for the better. The tournament will leave ...
President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday expressed optimism about the situation in Zimbabwe. Speaking in the National Assembly during debate on the Presidency budget vote, he repeated the Zimbabwean negotiations process was well underway and “some achievements have been registered”. The parties had also agreed to put in place various commissions that would help to move the ...
President Jacob Zuma celebrated one month until the start of the Fifa World Cup on Tuesday by flying SA Airways from Johannesburg to Cape Town. Zuma took the 1pm flight to Cape Town to boost confidence in the airline, which would soon carry thousands of foreigners and locals to South Africa and around the country ...
All eyes will be on President Jacob Zuma when he goes to the National Assembly on Wednesday to persuade MPs to approve the Presidency’s budget for this year. His budget vote will be spread over two days, with Thursday set aside for his reply to the debate. There is no doubt the controversies surrounding the ...
President Jacob Zuma is not planning to apologise for violating the executive members’ ethics code through failure to declare his financial interests, assets and liabilities in time. He has also been let off the hook by Cabinet, which has opted not to impose any sanction for his failure to meet the deadline. Zuma was supposed ...
