Zuma: A Biography

by Jeremy Gordin

Overview

The first edition of Zuma, published in late 2008, concluded with Jacob Zuma's future balancing on a knife's edge. National elections loomed, but so did corruption charges and endless court battles. Since then Zuma's star has spectacularly risen - the corruption charges were dropped, he led the ANC to election victory and duly became President of South Africa, and his new cabinet and government appointments were generally well received. But he has also recently suffered a huge blow with revelations of another love-child, this time with the daughter of soccer supremo Irvine Khoza. Many of his supporters have distanced themselves from him, and Zuma is looking isolated. Pundits are once again wondering how long he'll survive as President. In this revised and updated edition, Jeremy Gordin takes the reader right up to present. He covers in detail the highs and lows of Zuma's past 18 months, including the final salvoes of his legal battles, as well as his first year as President. New material in this edition also includes the 'Pedro' document (a document Zuma wrote in 1986), and accurate information on his wives and children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781868423712
Publisher:	Jonathan Ball
Publication date:	11/22/2010
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	356
File size:	2 MB

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements ix

Chapter 1 1942-1959 Zulu boy 1

Chapter 2 1960-1963 Working-class warrior 10

Chapter 3 1963-1973 The Island 16

Chapter 4 1974-1990 Silence, exile and cunning 24

Chapter 5 1990-1994 The talking times 44

Chapter 6 1993-2003 The greasy levers of power 62

Chapter 7 1999-2004 Bring us our machine guns 75

Chapter 8 2003-2004 Hefer or: Hamlet without the prince 86

Chapter 9 2004-2005 Shaik goes down 100

Chapter 10 2005 Annus miserabilis 113

Chapter 11 November 2005 Interlude in Zuma-land 132

Chapter 12 2006 Rape trial 144

Chapter 13 2006 Days of dirty laundry 169

Chapter 14 2006-2007 The Floating Opera 185

Chapter 15 2007 Siyaya Limpompo! (We are going to Limpopo!) 210

Chapter 16 2007-2008 The Zuma tsunami 234

Chapter 17 2008 Let's kill all the lawyers 254

Chapter 18 September 2008 Let's fire Mbeki instead 275

Chapter 19 1942-2008 JZ 291

Notes And Sources 309

Index 315