Kaya FM

Broadcast area	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Frequency	95.9 MHz FM
First air date	August 1997
Format	Urban/Jazz/African Indigenous
Owner	RadMark Media House
Website	[4]

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Kaya FM 95.9 is a radio station that broadcast from Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

History[link]

Kaya FM was launched in August 1997, and was one of the first frequencies to be approved for private commercial radio in South Africa. The station format is 60% music and 40% talk, thus making it unique to other ICASA approved licences ^[1]

Format and listenership[link]

According to its website,the current listenership stands at 628 000 per average day ^[2]. Most of the target audience of KAYA FM resides in the urban areas. The music format offers a mix including Adult Contemporary music and Rhythm and Blues, Soul, and Contemporary Jazz. It also includes African Indigenous Genre to its sound. Kaya FM 95.9 programming contains news, sport, and topical driven issues as well^[3].

Footprint[link]

Greater Johannesburg Metropolis

Northern Boundary: Pretoria Boundary

Eastern Boundary: Springs

Southern Boundary: Vanderbijlpark

Western Boundary: Carletonville

References[link]

External links[link]

• Kaya FM 95dot9, Official Website
• [http://www.unitedstations.co.za) Sales Agency
• [5], Live Streaming
• kaya fm listen live

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Kaya may refer to:

Music[link]

• Kaya (Mauritian musician), singer and creator of Seggae
• Kaya (Canadian singer), real name Francis Martin Lavergne
• Kaya (Japanese musician), former member of Schwarz Stein
• Kaya (album), an album by Bob Marley and the Wailers (1978)

People with the name[link]

• Kaya (given name)
• Kaya (surname)

Popular culture[link]

• Kaya (TV series), a scripted MTV drama television series
• Kaya, a vocal group in the Australian version of The X Factor
• Kaya FM in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Kaya (film), a 1969 Yugoslav film

Anime[link]

• Kaya (One Piece), a fictional character in the anime and manga One Piece
• Kaya (Princess Mononoke), a character from the anime movie Princess Mononoke

Other contexts[link]

• Skiu-Kaya, adjoining villages in India (a country in Asia)
• Kaya, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso
• Kaya Department, a department or commune of Sanmatenga Province in central Burkina Faso
• Kaya, South Sudan, a town in South Sudan
• Kaya, Kyoto, a town located in Yosa District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
• Kaya Yei, a traditional Ghanaian porter
• Kaya-no-miya, the seventh oldest collateral branch (ōke) of the Japanese Imperial Family
• Kaya identity, an equation relating factors that determine the level of human impact on climate, in the form of emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide
• Kaya (jam), a type of coconut egg jam popular in Malaysia and Singapore
• Kaya toast, a popular snack amongst Malaysians and Singaporeans
• Kaya Tour, a concert tour organised to support the album Kaya by Bob Marley & The Wailers
• Kaya (tree), Torreya nucifera, or Japanese Nutmeg tree
• Kaya (programming language), an imperative scripting language being developed by the Durham University Computing Society
• Gaya confederacy, a confederacy in southern Korea (42 - 562 CE)
• Kaya Airlines, a Mozambican airline

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Julius Malema
Former president of the ANC Youth League
In office April 2008 – April 2012
Vice President	Andile Lungisa, Ronald Lamola
Preceded by	Fikile Mbalula
Personal details
Born	Julius Sello Malema (1981-03-03) 3 March 1981 (age 31) Seshego
Nationality	South African
Political party	Independent (2012–present) African National Congress (1990–2012)
Nickname(s)	Juju

Julius Sello Malema (born 3 March 1981, in Seshego) is a South African politician, and the former president of the African National Congress Youth League. Malema occupies a notably controversial position in South African public and political life; having risen to prominence with his support for African National Congress president, and later President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma. He has been described by both Zuma^[1] and the Premier of Limpopo Province as the "future leader" of South Africa.^[2] Less favourable portraits paint him as a "reckless populist" with the potential to destabilise South Africa and to spark racial conflict.^[3] He was convicted of hate speech in March 2010^[4][5][6] and again in September 2011.^[7] In November 2011 he was found guilty of sowing divisions within the ANC and, in conjunction with his two-year suspended sentence in May 2010, was suspended from the party for five years.^[8]. In 2011, he was also convicted of hate speech after calling for the murder of white people. On 4 February 2012 the appeal committee of the African National Congress announced that it found no reason to “vary” a decision of the disciplinary committee taken in 2011,^[9] but did find evidence in aggravation of circumstances, leading them to impose the harsher sentence of expulsion from the ANC. On April 25 2012 Malema lost an appeal to have his expulsion from the ANC overturned, as this exhausted his final appeal, his expulsion took immediate effect.

Early life and career[link]

Malema, a Pedi, was born in Seshego. His mother was a domestic worker and a single parent.^[10][11] He joined the African National Congress's Masupatsela at the age of nine^[11] or ten.^[10] His main task was to illegally remove National Party posters.^[11]

Education[link]

Malema took longer than usual to complete secondary school, graduating at the age of 21 from Mohlakaneng High School in Seshego, Limpopo; he failed most of his subjects.^[12][13][14] In 2010, Malema completed a two-year diploma in youth development through University of South Africa (UNISA). He is currently enrolled at UNISA for a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and African languages.^[15]

Girls wear t-shirts portraying Malema at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Johannesburg 2010.

Political career[link]

Early political career[link]

Malema was elected a chairman of the Youth League branch in Seshego and the regional chairman in 1995. In 1997 he became the chairman of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) for the Limpopo province, and was elected as the national president of that organisation in 2001.^[16] In 2002, Malema led a Cosas march by school pupils, through the streets of Johannesburg that was marred by incidents of violence and looting.^[13]

Election as leader of ANC Youth League[link]

Malema was elected as the president of the ANC Youth League in April 2008.^[17] The election – and the conference – were characterised by what Malema himself later described as "unbecoming conduct".^[18] The integrity of his election has been criticised and questioned.^[19] He was later re-elected unopposed for a second term on 17 June 2011 at Gallagher Estate in Midrand when Lebogang Maile, the only opposing nomination, declined the nomination.^{[citation needed]}

April 2010 Zimbabwe visit[link]

In 3 April 2010, Malema visited Zimbabwe, in what was described as a visit on indigenisation. He was expected to meet Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe. Upon landing in Harare, Malema was greeted by Zanu-PF supporters as well as Zimbabwe's Youth and Indigenization Minister Saviour Kasukuwere, and ZANU-PF Youth Chairman Absolom Sikhosana, as well as Zimbabwean business figures who had risen to prominence in recent years.^[20] Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean Prime Minister, condemned Malema's visit, after Malema criticised Tsvangirai's party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).^[21] During the visit, he described Tsvangirai as an ally of "imperialists", and called for the Zimbabwe-style seizure of mines and farms in South Africa (see below).^[22] Youth organisations in Zimbabwe criticised Malema's visit, citing his controversial racial statements and alleged corruption.^[23] Malema's comments during the visit sparked fears that South Africa would follow Zimbabwe's chaotic land reform example.^[23] Malema also blamed the MDC for introducing political violence to Zimbabwe, and defended Robert Mugabe's political and human rights record.^[24]

On Malema's return from Zimbabwe, the ANC Youth league released a statement praising Mugabe and Zimbabwe's land seizures. It also called on South Africa's youth to follow the example of young people in Zimbabwe, and to engage in agriculture in order to reduce their dependence on white farmers.^[25] Malema's support within the ANC Youth League remains strong, although no longer monolithic.

Malema's visit came while President Jacob Zuma was trying to broker a political settlement in Zimbabwe, and reportedly caused concern among ANC officials, but Zuma himself blessed the visit.^[26] The ANC, however, in a later statement distanced itself from the ANC Youth League's electoral support of ZANU-PF.^[27]

Incident involving BBC journalist[link]

On 8 April 2010, at a Johannesburg media briefing covering his visit to Zimbabwe, Malema was involved in a racial abuse incident with Jonah Fisher, a BBC journalist.^[28] Malema had been criticising the Movement for Democratic Change for having offices in affluent Sandton, when BBC journalist Jonah Fisher commented that Malema himself lived in Sandton. Malema lashed out at Fisher, after Fisher described Malema's comments as rubbish.^{[29][30][31][32][33][34]} Malema was unapologetic about his actions, and accused Fisher of being disrespectful, and of coming from a country [the UK] which undermined the credibility and integrity of African leaders.^[35] After the incident Malema said he expected an apology from Fisher^[36] However, the next day, the ANC issued a statement condemning Malema's actions during the news conference.^[27][36] On 10 April 2010, at a Durban news conference, where he characterised Malema's conduct as "alien to the ANC",^[37] President Jacob Zuma publicly criticised Malema's behaviour ^[38] saying that "the manner in which a BBC journalist was treated at an ANC Youth League press conference is regrettable and unacceptable, regardless of any alleged provocation on his part", and said that he had spoken to Malema about his conduct by telephone.^[39][40] Malema remained defiant after Zuma's rebuke.^[37]

Disciplinary procedures by ANC[link]

On 18 April 2010, it was reported that Malema faced disciplinary procedures by the ANC for bringing it and the government into disrepute.^[41][42] The charges related to his endorsement of Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party during his visit to Zimbabwe, when President Jacob Zuma was trying to broker a negotiated settlement in the country, a controversial incident involving a BBC journalist, his comments on the murder of Eugène Terre'Blanche, and unfavorably comparing Zuma to his predecessor Thabo Mbeki, after Zuma called a press conference reprimanding Malema.^[43] Julius Malema faced a "hostile" disciplinary committee on 3 May 2010.^[44]

On 11 May 2010, Malema entered into a plea bargain, and three of the charges against him were dropped (the attack on the BBC journalist, his endorsement of Mugabe, and his singing of "shoot the Boer" after it was banned). He pleaded guilty to criticising Zuma after Zuma publicly censured him, and was ordered by the disciplinary committee to make a public apology for his conduct, fined R10 000 to be donated to a youth development project, and to attend anger management classes. He was also warned of suspension from the ANC if he re-offended within two years. Malema complied, apologising "unconditionally", stating that he accepted that his "conduct and public utterances should at all times reflect respect and restraint"^{[citation needed]}.

Nationalisation and land redistribution[link]

Malema became a vocal advocate of nationalising South African mines.^[45][when?] Although the ANC, including Mining Minister Susan Shabangu, and president Jacob Zuma^[46] made it clear that this was not ANC policy,^[47] Malema continued to advocate this position. Malema's opinions on nationalisation are not shared by South Africa's large National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which stated that it is against the nationalisation of South Africa's mines^{[citation needed]}. At a public meeting at the University of Western Cape, Malema asked: "Why should we pay for our land?"^[48] He then advocated the return of land without compensation and the removal of the "willing buyer, willing seller" principle. At a June 16 Youth Day celebration, Malema accused white South Africans of "stealing land" and again advocated for the redistribution of land without compensation.^[49]

In April 2010 Malema led a youth delegation to Venezuela to study that country's nationalisation programme.^[50]

Other activities as Youth League president[link]

Malema campaigned enthusiastically for the ANC in the April 2009 elections. However, he was asked to leave Port Elizabeth's Dora Nginza Hospital after the head of the hospital noticed him and 20 other ANC members campaigning in the wards.^[51] In an apparent effort to reach the new youth, Malema also began visiting schools. These visits were criticised by Deputy President of South Africa, and of the ANC, Kgalema Motlanthe for being disruptive to education.^[52]

In early 2010, Malema urged ANC Youth League members to join the South African National Defence Force, and said that there were plans for the Youth League leadership to join the reservist programme.^[53] The military training was confirmed in May 2010, with the naval ^[54] training due to commence in September 2010.^[55]

In March 2010, in what was widely held to be a rebuke of Malema, the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC) lashed out at the "new culture of public feuds, insults and personal attacks" and adopted a policy of disciplining those who became involved in public disputes with members of the governing ANC-SACP-COSATU alliance.^[56]

Malema's bid for a second term as Youth League president received a boost in 2010 when a number of Eastern Cape ANC Youth League regional conferences in the Eastern Cape elected candidates remained loyal to him,^[57] although there were some allegations of irregularities from Malema's opponents.^[58] In Malema's home province, Limpopo, a fiercely contested race for the Youth League presidency had been expected.^[36] The Limpopo meeting experienced vigorous discussion, on occasion degenerating into violence. Malema's rivals and journalists were reportedly ejected by police, at the behest of Malema.^[59][60]

Disciplinary review by ANC[link]

On Aug 30, 2011 Malema was subjected to a disciplinary hearing by the ANC. Malema's supporters held a rally in the center of Johannesburg that turned into a violent confrontation such as the country had not seen since the end of apartheid. Some of the protesters held placards with slogans like "South Africa for blacks only",^[61] that caused many disapproving reactions from the black community.

Julius Malema subsequently submitted an application to have all charges against him revoked. The ANC's National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) met on the 31st August 2011 and 1 September to deliberate on this application. The ruling was delivered at 09h00 on the 2 September 2011. The NDC dismissed Julius Malema’s application to have the charges quashed.^[62]

On 10 November 2011, ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema was found guilty of contravening Rules 25.5(c) and (i) of the ANC Constitution^[63] for expressing views at a press conference of the ANC Youth League on 31 July 2011 "which sought to portray the ANC government and its leadership under President Zuma in a negative light in relation to the African agenda and which had the potential to sow division and disunity in the ANC, and for expressing his personal views on Botswana which contravened ANC policy."^[64] He was suspended from the ANC for five years.^[8]

Convictions handed down by the National Disciplinary Committee to ANC Youth League leaders were upheld by an appeals committee on Saturday 4 February 2012. As a result ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema was stripped of his title and party membership.^[9] The NDC was instructed by the National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal (NDCA) to hear evidence in mitigation and aggravation of sanction in the cases involving Sindiso Magaqa, Floyd Shivambu and Julius Malema.^[64]

On 29 February 2012, the National Disciplinary Committee, chaired by Derek Hanekom, announced the results of their review from Luthuli House. In their statement the NDC characterised the relationship between the ANC and the three respondents as "contractual in nature", bound by a "membership oath". It goes on to state that the respondents "were fully aware of the provisions of the ANC Constitution; they considered themselves bound by the ANC Constitution and they undertook to respect the ANC Constitution and its structures."^[64] The report characterised Malema as a repeat offender who was unrepentant and did not accept the findings of the disciplinary machinery of the ANC. Their conclusion in respect of Malema was:

"The NDC is of the view that if comrade Malema is not prepared to accept final decisions of the NDCA, then the likelihood of him respecting the ANC Constitution is remote." —point 74 of the report^[64]

The NDC expelled Malema from the ANC, ordered him to vacate his position as President of the ANC Youth League, but gave him leave to appeal to the NDCA against sanction within 14 days.^[64] On 24 April 2012 the appeal process ended when the NDCA confirmed his expulsion with immediate effect.^[65]

Involvement in state contracts[link]

Reports about Malema's possible involvement in state tenders (contracts)^[19] began appearing in November 2009.^[66] Questions about his personal lifestyle were raised by the South African media.^{[67][68][69][70][71][72][73]} Some analysts suggest that this is also known as being a tenderpreneur, which is the early emergence of a form of kleptocracy, or predatory behaviour by a clique in the ruling elite, to generate personal wealth by capturing resources.^[74]

In March 2010, addressing the allegations at a rally at a university campus, Malema, sang the struggle song "shoot the Boer"^[75] (see below), and lashed out at opposition politicians. He also attacked COSATU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.^[76][77]

In August 2010, the Public Protector released a report which cleared Malema of involvement in state tenders in Limpopo. This was received with scepticism by some.^[78]

Threats to expose journalists[link]

A few weeks after the tender controversy was first reported, the ANC Youth League released the personal details of City Press Investigations Editor Dumisane Lubisi, his wife and his children, including their identity numbers, bank details, residential address and vehicle details.^[79] Lubisi had reported on the poor construction quality of the Limpopo projects carried out by Malema's firms.^[80][81] The ANCYL made claims that it had evidence that journalists were corrupt in several respects.^[82][83]

In response, a large group of political journalists complained ^[84] to various authorities within the ANC and to the South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) stating that they viewed the release as an attempt to intimidate them into not publishing further stories, and as a threat to media freedom. They further questioned how a political organisation obtained sensitive personal information without breaking the law.^[85][86] The Sowetan newspaper, in an editorial, called the steps to silence journalists "tyrannical", and accused the ANC Youth league of exploiting its closeness to "state and institutional power", to intimidate journalists who wrote about Malema.^[87] SANEF also released a statement supporting the journalists.^[88]

Malema then issued a statement that the ANCYL would continue to expose journalists.^[89]

Investigation by the Hawks[link]

When he was overseas at a friend's wedding in Mauritius at the end of October 2011, it was reported^{[citation needed]} in various South African media that Malema faced various charges of corruption, fraud and money laundering – these charges having been brought forward by the Special Investigative Unit, the Hawks.^{[citation needed]} At the core of the allegations is the Ratanang Trust, a trust ostensibly set up by Malema and named for his son – with his son and grandmother listed as beneficiaries – but allegedly is the focal point for payments made by politically-connected businessmen in return for lucrative state tenders, mostly in the impoverished Limpopo region.

Malema has since denied all wrong-doing, while various investigations continue.^{[citation needed]}

Hate speech convictions[link]

March 2010 hate speech conviction[link]

On March 15, 2010 Malema was convicted of hate speech by the Equality Court, fined R50 000 and ordered to apologise unconditionally,^[4][5][6] following a 2009 incident when he told a group of Cape Town students at a South African Students' Congress (SASCO) meeting that the woman who accused ANC president Jacob Zuma of rape had a "nice time" with him because in the morning she had "requested breakfast and taxi money"^[90] Following the conviction SASCO expressed "delight" at the ruling and attacked Malema for the "gratuitous abuse" of the platform that SASCO granted him ^[91]

"Shoot the Boer" song[link]

In March 2010, at a rally on a university campus Malema sang the lyrics "shoot the Boer" (Dubul' ibhunu^[92]) from the anti-apartheid song Ayasab' amagwala (the cowards are scared)^[93] ("Boer" is the Afrikaans word for "farmer", but is also used as a derogatory term for any white person^[94][95]). His singing was compared to similar chants by deceased Youth League leader Peter Mokaba in the early 1990s, to "kill the boer",^[93] which had previously been defined as hate speech by the South African Human Rights Commission.^[96]

Malema's singing of the song led to a barrage of complaints against him, both to the police, and to the commission.^[96][97]

The ANC said "We wouldn't appreciate any statements against any member of our society, including whites... they are also South Africans", however, it "had not taken a decision in the matter".^[98]

The Southern Gauteng High Court ruled on 26 March 2010 that Malema's song (which he had continued singing at public gatherings ^[99]) was "unconstitutional and unlawful", and that any person singing it could face charges of incitement to murder, stating that the song called for the killing of the "farmer/white man", however, the ANC defended the song.^[100] The ANC announced it would appeal the ruling. The Northern Gauteng High Court, on 1 April 2010 then granted an interdict preventing Malema from publicly uttering the words of this or any other song which could be considered to be instigating violence, distrust and/or hatred between black and white citizens in the Republic of South Africa" until the matter was heard by the Equality Court, to which the case was referred by the presiding judge.^[101][102]

In the aftermath of Eugène Terre'Blanche's April 2010 murder, senior leaders of the ANC temporarily banned the singing of the song, amid concerns that struggle songs were being used to "scapegoat" the ANC and to further racial hatred, and because of concerns that ANC leaders who continued singing the songs may have been in contempt of the court orders banning the singing of the song.

President Jacob Zuma, at a 10 April 2010 news conference said Malema was "totally out of order" for ignoring ANC instructions to obey the court order banning the singing the song. Zuma emphasised the constitutional role of the judiciary and the rule of law, and also said that the role of the judiciary "as the final arbiter in disputes" had to be respected, and that defiance of the proper procedures in place to challenge judicial rulings, made a "mockery of the judicial system" and "should not be tolerated".^[38][40]

Hate speech trial and conviction[link]

In April 2011 Afriforum brought a case of hate speech against Malema in regard to the song and several notable ANC figures such as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and secretary-general Gwede Mantashe threw their weight behind him in the court battle. Aggressive and patronizing questioning of black witnesses by lawyers for the Afrikaner groups bringing the suit reportedly allowed Malema to portray himself a victim of Afrikaner persecution.^[103]

On 12 September 2011, Malema was found guilty of hate speech.^[7][104]

Depiction in mainstream media[link]

Malema is known for his controversial statements and has become a frequent target for lampooning. Initially, Cartoonists Zapiro and Jeremy Nell frequently drew him dressed in nappies.^[105][106] Some analysts depict him as an orator, with a broad appeal in the young, poor, and disadvantaged black electorate.^[107] More recently, as Malema's public profile has grown, he has been described by critics in the media as a "demagogue".^[108] He was listed in Time (magazine)'s Least Influential People of 2010,^[109] whereas conversely Forbes Magazine named him as one of the "10 Youngest Power Men In Africa" in September 2011.^[110]

External links[link]

• Max du Preez: The man is a bully
• Third Degree special on Malema
• Julius Malema – An unlikely leader
• Carte Blanche on Malema

References[link]

Jacob Zuma GCB
President of South Africa
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 May 2009
Deputy	Kgalema Motlanthe
Preceded by	Kgalema Motlanthe
President of the African National Congress
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 December 2007
Deputy	Kgalema Motlanthe
Preceded by	Thabo Mbeki
Deputy President of South Africa
In office 14 June 1999 – 14 June 2005
President	Thabo Mbeki
Preceded by	Thabo Mbeki
Succeeded by	Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Member of Parliament
In office 1999–2005
Personal details
Born	Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (1942-04-12) 12 April 1942 (age 70) Inkandla, South Africa
Nationality	South African
Political party	African National Congress (1959–present)
Spouse(s)	Gertrude Sizakele Khumalo (1973–present) Kate Zuma (1976–2000)[1] Nkosazana Dlamini (1982–1998) Nompumelelo Ntuli (2008–present) Thobeka Mabhija (2010–present)[2] Gloria Bongekile Ngema (2012-present)[3]
Children	20
Religion	Protestantism (Full Gospel Church of Southern Africa)[4]

Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (born 12 April 1942) is the President of South Africa,^[5] elected by parliament following his party's victory in the 2009 general election.

Zuma is the President of the African National Congress (ANC), the governing political party, and was Deputy President of South Africa from 1999 to 2005.^[6] Zuma is also referred to by his initials JZ^[7] and his clan name Msholozi.^[8][9] Zuma became the President of the ANC on 18 December 2007 after defeating incumbent Thabo Mbeki at the ANC conference in Polokwane. Zuma was also a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP),^[10] briefly serving on the party's Politburo until he left the party in 1990.^[11] On 20 September 2008, Thabo Mbeki announced his resignation after being recalled by the African National Congress's National Executive Committee,^[12] following a conclusion by Judge Nicholson of improper interference in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), including the prosecution of Jacob Zuma for corruption.

Zuma has faced significant legal challenges. He was charged with rape in 2005, but was acquitted. In addition, he fought a long legal battle over allegations of racketeering and corruption, resulting from his financial advisor Schabir Shaik's conviction for corruption and fraud. On 6 April 2009, the National Prosecuting Authority decided to drop the charges, citing political interference.

Life and career[link]

Early years[link]

Zuma was born in Nkandla, Zululand (now part of KwaZulu-Natal).^[13] His father was a policeman who died when Zuma was still a young boy, and his mother a domestic worker.^[14] He received no formal schooling.^[15] As a child, he was constantly moving between Zululand and the suburbs of Durban in the area of Umkhumbane (near Chesterville).^[16] He has two brothers, Michael and Joseph.^[17]

Imprisonment and ban[link]

Zuma engaged in politics at an early age and joined the African National Congress in 1959. He became an active member of Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1962, following the banning of the ANC in 1961. He joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1963.^[10] In 1963, he was arrested with a group of 45 recruits near Zeerust in the western Transvaal, currently part of the North West Province. Convicted of conspiring to overthrow the Apartheid government which was led by white minorities, he was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, which he served on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela and other notable ANC leaders who were also imprisoned there. Whilst imprisoned Zuma served as a referee for prisoners' association football games, organised by the prisoners' own governing body, Makana F.A.^[18]

After his release, he was instrumental in the re-establishment of ANC underground structures in the Natal province.^[6]

He first left South Africa in 1975 and met Thabo Mbeki in Swaziland, and proceeded to Mozambique, where he dealt with the arrival of thousands of exiles in the wake of the Soweto uprising.

He became a member of the ANC National Executive Committee in 1977. He also served as Deputy Chief Representative of the ANC in Mozambique, a post he occupied until the signing of the Nkomati Accord between the Mozambican and South African governments in 1984. After signing the Accord, he was appointed as Chief Representative of the ANC.

He served on the ANC's political and military council when it was formed in the mid-1980s, and was elected to the politburo of the SACP on April 1989.^[19]

In January 1987, Zuma was again forced to leave a country, this time by the government of Mozambique. He moved to the ANC Head Office in Lusaka, Zambia, where he was appointed Head of Underground Structures and shortly thereafter Chief of the Intelligence Department. His tenure there remains the subject of considerable controversy.^[10]

Return from exile[link]

Following the end of the ban on the ANC in February 1990, he was one of the first ANC leaders to return to South Africa to begin the process of negotiations.^[6]

In 1990, he was elected Chairperson of the ANC for the Southern Natal region, and took a leading role in fighting political violence in the region between members of the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). He was elected the Deputy Secretary General of the ANC the next year, and in January 1994, he was nominated as the ANC candidate for the Premiership of KwaZulu Natal.

The IFP, led by Mangosuthu Buthelezi, put particular emphasis on Zulu pride and political power during this period. In this context, Zuma's Zulu heritage made his role especially important in the ANC's efforts to end the violence, to emphasise the political (rather than tribal) roots of the violence, and to win the support of Zulu people in the region.

Rise to national leadership[link]

Zuma had experience in national leadership, as he started serving in the National Executive committee of the ANC in 1977 when the party was still a liberation movement. By the time he became its president he had served the ANC for thirty years. After the 1994 general election, with the ANC becoming a governing party but having lost KwaZulu-Natal province to the IFP, he was appointed as Member of the Executive Committee (MEC) of Economic Affairs and Tourism for the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government, after stepping aside to allow Thabo Mbeki to run unopposed for deputy presidency. In December 1994, he was elected National Chairperson of the ANC and chairperson of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, and was re-elected to the latter position in 1996. He was elected Deputy President of the ANC at the National Conference held at Mafikeng in December 1997 and consequently appointed executive Deputy President of South Africa in June 1999.

During this time, he also worked in Kampala, Uganda, as facilitator of the Burundi peace process, along with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Museveni chairs the Great Lakes Regional Initiative, a grouping of regional presidents overseeing the peace process in Burundi, where several armed Hutu groups took up arms in 1993 against a government and army dominated by the Tutsi minority that they claimed had assassinated the first president elected from the Hutu majority.^[20]

On 14 June 2005 Zuma was expelled from his post as Deputy President due to corruption and fraud related to the $5-billion weapons acquisition deal by the South African government in 1999. Zuma's successor as Deputy President of South Africa was Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the wife of Bulelani Ngcuka. Mlambo-Ngcuka had been Minister of Minerals and Energy since 1999. While her appointment was widely welcomed by the business community, she was booed publicly at many ANC rallies by Zuma supporters between the time corruption charges had been filed but before rape charges were made with the first booing taking place in Utrecht.^[21]

Election as ANC President[link]

Zuma with Barack Obama and Michelle Obama in New York, 2009

In terms of party tradition, as the deputy president of the ANC, Zuma was already in line to succeed Mbeki. The party structures held their nominations conferences in October and November 2007, where Zuma appeared favourite for the post of ANC President, and, by implication, the President of South Africa in 2009.^[22][23][24] Zuma was elected President of the ANC on 18 December 2007 with 2329 votes, beating the second-term ANC and South African president Thabo Mbeki's 1505 votes. On 28 December 2007, the National Prosecuting Authority served Zuma an indictment to stand trial in the High Court on various counts of racketeering, money laundering, corruption and fraud.^[25]

President of South Africa[link]

Argentinean President Cristina Fernández and South African President Zuma speaking together.

In September 2008, the ANC ruled Thabo Mbeki unfit to rule a country, thus ending his parliamentary support and forcing his resignation from the country's presidency. It was announced that the party's deputy president, Kgalema Motlanthe, would become president until 2009 general elections, after which Zuma would become president.^[26][27] He won the election on 6 May and was sworn in as president of South Africa on 9 May 2009.

Political-economic orientation[link]

Zuma is an economic leftist, who described himself as a socialist.^[28] He has received support from trade unions and from the South African Communist Party. He also received support from women's and youth leagues of the African National Congress.^[28] According to The Guardian and The New York Times, he supports redistribution of wealth, and has allied himself with socialists and communists that seek to redistribute wealth.^[28][29] But The Guardian (UK) also reported that Zuma has tried "to reassure foreign investors their interests will be protected."

Corruption charges[link]

Zuma became embroiled in a corruption related controversy after his financial advisor, Schabir Shaik, was charged with corruption and fraud. Bulelani Ngcuka, the national director of Public Prosecutions at the time, investigated both Zuma and the Chief Whip of the ANC, Tony Yengeni, after allegations of abuse of power were levelled against them. This concerned improper influence in the controversial arms deal, and the question of financial benefit as a result of such influence. While Yengeni was found guilty, the case was dropped against Zuma, with Ngcuka stating, "...that there was prima facie evidence of corruption, but insufficient to win the case in court".^[30] Ngcuka moved to private practice after criticism from the ANC over this incident.

In 2004, Zuma became a key figure mentioned in the Schabir Shaik trial. Schabir Shaik, a Durban businessman and his financial advisor, was questioned over bribery in the course of the purchase of Valour class frigates for the South African Navy, a proposed waterfront development in Durban, and lavish spending on Zuma's residence in Nkandla. In the trial Shaik was shown to have solicited a bribe of R500 000 per annum for Zuma in return for Zuma's support for the defence contractor Thomson CSF, documented in the infamous "encrypted fax".^[31][32] On 2 June 2005, Shaik was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison.^[33]

Judge Hilary Squires elaborates in detail on the numerous transactions that transpired between Zuma and Shaik, summarising with "all the accused companies were used at one time or another to pay sums of money to Jacob Zuma". The media mis-quoted Squires with the phrase "A generally corrupt relationship" (existed between Zuma and Shaik), whereas these exact words do not appear in the court transcripts.^[34] To the defence of the originators of this phrase, the full transcript^[35][36] of the judgment against Shaik actually does mention Zuma 471 times, uses word "corrupt" or "corruption" 54 times, and contains 12 sentences with both the word "corrupt" and the name "Zuma". Media sources later switched to the phrase "mutually beneficial symbiosis", from the judgment's paragraph 235: "It would be flying in the face of commonsense and ordinary human nature to think that he did not realise the advantages to him of continuing to enjoy Zuma's goodwill to an even greater extent than before 1997; and even if nothing was ever said between them to establish the mutually beneficial symbiosis that the evidence shows existed, the circumstances of the commencement and the sustained continuation thereafter of these payments, can only have generated a sense of obligation in the recipient."