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Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma,[needs IPA] GCB[5](born 12 April 1942) is the President of South Africa,[6] elected by parliament following his party’s victory in the 2009 general election. He was re-elected in the 2014 election.[7] 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.[8] Zuma is also referred to by his initials JZ[9] and his clan name Msholozi.[10][11]Zuma became the President of the ANC on 18 December 2007 after defeating incumbent Thabo Mbeki at the ANC conference in Polokwane. He was re-elected as ANC leader at...

By Emmanuel Mwamba, Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa President Edgar Chagwa Lungu kicked of the day-Friday 9th December 2016  with a ceremony full of honours: a 21 Gun-salute. We later moved into official talks where issues of mutual interests and concerns were discussed, talks hosted at State House. Issues regarding trade imbalance, and specific sectoral issues in agriculture, tourism, mining, manufacturing and industrialisation where discussed. Of interest is the project: “Liberation & Heritage Route Project” to memorialise the struggle tracing the route of the struggle. President Lungu informed President Zuma that his government had gazzeted the house in which...