Jacob Zuma

Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (b. 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth democratically elected President of South Africa from the 9 May 2009 until his resignation on 14 February 2018.
As a child, Zuma received no formal schooling. After joining the African National Congress in 1959, he was arrested in 1963 and sentenced to ten years in prison for plotting to overthrow the apartheid government. After his release, he continued to work for Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC, and was forced to flee the country in 1975 to avoid arrest, hiding first in Mozambique and later in Zambia.
After the South African government lifted the ban on the ANC, Zuma entered politics, being elected chairperson of the southern Natal region, before becoming the ANC's deputy general secretary. In December 1997 he was elected deputy president of the ANC, and in 1999 he was appointed deputy president of the entire country by Thabo Mbeki. Zuma was dismissed from his post in 2005 after allegations of corruption. In 2006, Zuma faced a rape charge but was acquitted. The corruption case was struck from the rolls after a judge declared the state's case to be inadequate. Zuma's supporters declared the charges to have been politically motivated, and he would go on to defeat Mbeki in the 2007 leadership conference.
==Popular Culture==
===Mentions===
The following list is explicit mentions of Jacob Zuma in fiction and popular culture.
Year	Name	Appearance	Notes
2015	Zuma	
*Skewe Reënboog	
*A hermit (Gavin van den Berg) living in a miniature museum dedicated to the glory days of South Africa receives a rude awakening as to the current state of the country. He attempts to ask Nelson Mandela for help to save his museum, but is informed that Mandela has died. After weeping in front of his statue, a passing ice cream man suggests that the hermit try to speak with Zuma. After being turned away by a security official, the hermit hallucinates an approaching security guard to be an angry gorilla and stabs him. He is shot by security officials, but escapes, only to bleed to death in a nearby park.Skewe Reënboog - IMDB - Retrieved 14 March 2021Skewe Reënboog (Crooked Rainbow) - Wim Steytler - 30 July 2018 - Vimeo - Retrieved 14 March 2021
==Quotes==
See Jacob Zuma/Quotes.
==Links==
*Jacob Zuma on Wikipedia
*Jacob Zuma on Encyclopædia Britannica
==References==
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Category:Real Presidents of South Africa
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