Jacob Zuma

**Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma** (born 12 April 1942) in what is now Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal is a South African politician. He was the President of South Africa from 2009 to 2018.

In the 1960s, he was against the government of South Africa's policy of apartheid. He spent some time in prison on Robben Island for conspiring to overthrow the government.

In February 14, 2018 South Africa President **Jacob Zuma** resigned for a disputed disagreement instruction with the ruling African National Congress.

## Personal life

In 2005 he was charged with rape but he was found not guilty.

One of their traditions he follows is polygamy (having more than one wife). He has had six wives (one of them killed herself in 2000) and has fathered more than twenty children.

Zuma was the person to tell the public on December 5, 2013 that Nelson Mandela had died.

## Life after the presidency

On the eve of the African National Congress having a vote of no confidence against him, Zuma resigned. A few weeks after he resigned, it was reported that he fathered a child with a 24 year old woman in a Durban hospital.

On 29 June 2021, Zuma was sentenced to fifteen months in prison for not showing up to court over his corruption trial.

In August 2021, Jacob Zuma received an insufficient pension to cover his legal costs. In any case, this is what his relatives suggest, who are calling on their fellow citizens to contribute to their former head of state.

In September 2021, the South African Constitutional Court scathingly dismissed former President Zuma's petition to reverse his ruling sentencing him to 15 months in prison for contempt of justice.

On July 29, 2024, the ANC disciplinary commission decided to permanently exclude Jacob Zuma, after leading a competing party in the May 2024 elections.

On 22 November 2024, the exclusion of Jacob Zuma from the ANC was definitively confirmed by the party, after Jacob Zuma rejected his appeal.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: Excellency, His Excellency
- **name**: Jacob Zuma
- **honorific-suffix**: Order of the Bath, GCB
- **image**: Russian President Vladimir Putin alongside South African President Jacob Zuma (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Zuma in 2017
- **order**: 4th
- **office**: President of South Africa
- **deputy**: Kgalema Motlanthe (2009–2014)
Cyril Ramaphosa (2014–2018)
- **term start**: 9 May 2009
- **term end**: 14 February 2018
- **predecessor**: Kgalema Motlanthe
- **successor**: Cyril Ramaphosa
- **office2**: African National Congress, President of the African National Congress
- **deputy2**: Kgalema Motlanthe (2007–2012), Cyril Ramaphosa (2012–2017)
- **term start2**: 18 December 2007
- **term end2**: 18 December 2017
- **predecessor2**: Thabo Mbeki
- **successor2**: Cyril Ramaphosa
- **office3**: Deputy President of South Africa
- **term start3**: 14 June 1999
- **term end3**: 14 June 2005
- **president3**: Thabo Mbeki
- **predecessor3**: Thabo Mbeki
- **successor3**: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
- **office4**: Member of Parliament
- **term start4**: 1999
- **term end4**: 2005
- **birthname**: Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
- **birth place**: Inkandla, Natal Province, Union of South Africa
- **nationality**: South African
- **party**: African National Congress <small>(1959–present)</small>
- **spouse**: Gertrude Sizakele Khumalo
<small>(1973–present)</small>
Kate Zuma
<small>(1976–2000)</small>
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Nkosazana Dlamini
<small>(1982–1998)</small>
Nompumelelo Ntuli
<small>(2008–present)</small>
Thobeka Mabhija
<small>(2010–present)</small>
Gloria Bongekile Ngema
<small>(2012–present)</small>
- **children**: 20