Jacob Zuma

South Africa's Ruling Party Will Fail to Quash Freedom of Expression

Alex Matthews | Posted 05.30.2012

Alex Matthews

Several weeks ago, controversy ignited in South Africa when a Johannesburg gallery opened an exhibition by artist Brett Murray featuring The Spear -- a painting which depicted Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa with his genitals exposed.

President Sues Over Penis Art

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 05.24.2012

JOHANNESBURG -- A lawyer for South Africa's president broke down in tears Thursday as he tried to convince three judges that the display of a portrait...

Presidential Penis Portrait Shocks African National Congress

Reuters | Peroshni Govender | Posted 05.18.2012

By Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC threatened to take legal action against a Johannesburg gallery ...

South Africa's Shocking Polygamy Airline Promotion

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 04.26.2012

Flying with family members can get expensive, particularly for polygamists. But a new airline promotion could provide big savings for gentlemen with n...

Guess What Just Turned 100

AP | By ED BROWN | Posted 03.09.2012

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa -- Tens of thousands of chanting and dancing revelers waved the green and gold colors of the African National Congress as A...

Political Power Struggle Overshadows South Africa's Broken Promise

Michelle Chen | Posted 11.21.2011

Michelle Chen

It's been more than two decades since South Africa overthrew apartheid rule, but ordinary South Africans today live under a different, subtler form of oppression.

Police Clash With Ruling Party's Youth League In South Africa

AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 10.30.2011

JOHANNESBURG — Violent protests Tuesday by supporters of South Africa's firebrand youth leader are the latest political salvo in a power struggl...

African Union Refuses To Recognize Libyan Rebels

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 10.26.2011

UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that African, Arab and European organizations agreed on the urgent need to end the fi...

Spilling Whiskey On President Ends In Assault Conviction

AP | Posted 09.26.2011

JOHANNESBURG -- South African prosecutors say a man who spilled his glass of whiskey on the president has been convicted of assault. Daryl Peense was...

South African President: Gaddafi Ready For Truce

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 07.30.2011

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi is ready for a truce to stop the fighting in his country, the visiting South African president said Monday after mee...

South Africa: Gaddafi Has Accepted 'Road Map' For Cease-Fire

AP | HADEEL AL-SHALCHI and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 06.10.2011

TRIPOLI, Libya — A delegation of African leaders said Sunday that their Libyan counterpart, Moammar Gadhafi, accepted their "road map" for a cea...

International Climate Negotiations Grind to a Standstill

Corbin Hiar | Posted 05.25.2011

Corbin Hiar

Not much has been said or written about the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change since the flurry of post-Cancun commentary. So what's been happening with the climate talks?

Nelson Mandela Hospitalized In South Africa

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 05.25.2011

JOHANNESBURG — Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hospitalized for a second straight day Thursday for what his office described a...

World Cup Hangover Hits South Africa

Etan Thomas and Dave Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011

Etan Thomas and Dave Zirin

The World Cup was without question a major sporting success for South Africa. The fields opened on schedule and disparate groups of South Africans who usually self-segregate exalted together in public. But the party's over.

Media freedom and violence prevention

Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011

Nicholas van Praag

This post originally appeared on the Conflict and Development blog on September 1, 2010. True believers in press freedom. Photo: Brooks Kraft/Sygma...

Obama: Al Qaeda Would Use Nuclear Weapon If It Could

Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON (Associated Press) - If al-Qaida acquired nuclear weapons it "would have no compunction at using them," President Barack Obama said Sunda...

The World Cup Is a Lift for South Africa

Amb. John Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011

Amb. John Campbell

The soccer matches will provide a lift for the national mood of a country that wrestles with seemingly intractable problems in a democratic context if no longer with the uncritical acclaim of the immediate post-apartheid era.

New Zuma Sex Scandal Mars Run-Up To World Cup

Christian Science Monitor | Scott Baldauf | Posted 05.25.2011

President Jacob Zuma's family denies press reports that one of his three wives had an affair with her bodyguard, but the story is causing a stir in So...

Something New Out of Africa: A Global Player

Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Posted 05.25.2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

From our perspective, South Africa weathered the financial crisis well -- with a set of pragmatic counter-cyclical policies that enabled the country to withstand its first recession in 20 years.

South Africa World Cup: 40,000 Prostitutes May Enter Country

Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011

The host nation is tightening border controls ahead of a predicted influx of sex workers hoping to ply their trade with fans during the month-long tou...

Jason Linkins

Sally Quinn Will Settle All Of Her Scores, On Twitter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Last week, a world mourned when Dame Sally Quinn, of the Washington, DC Bradlee-Quinns, had her print column -- which I believe was titled "The Drowsy...

How Zuma's Sex Life is Endangering Millions

Alex Matthews | Posted 05.25.2011

Alex Matthews

Recent reports that South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has fathered his twentieth child with a woman he is not married to has disturbing implications for the battle against HIV/Aids.

Jacob Zuma Acknowledges Love Child

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 05.25.2011

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's polygamist president confirmed Wednesday that he fathered a daughter last year with a woman who is not one of his ...

Zuma Needs To Stop Acting Like A 'Gigolo,' Politician Says

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 05.25.2011

JOHANNESBURG — A South African presidential spokesman on Tuesday called a newspaper story that the country's polygamist leader had fathered a ch...

The First Polygamist and his First, Second and Third Ladies

Luso Mnthali | Posted 05.25.2011

Luso Mnthali

For at least some steps forward, there are some other steps backwards somewhere in the world, but South Africa cannot use this as a reason to excuse a president that is surely setting a bad example.