Jacob Zuma’s ANC disciplinary hearings have reportedly been put on ice, until after the elections, according to a letter currently circulating on social media.

A party backed by former South African President Jacob Zuma said it expects to be in government after May 29 elections, and that it plans to raise additional state revenue by increasing capital gains and inheritance taxes once in office.

Jacob Zuma, who led South Africa for almost nine scandal-ridden years before the ruling party forced him from office, has staged a dramatic comeback and is shaking up politics before this month’s elections.

South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma is running a visible and noisy campaign for May's elections against his former party, the ruling African National Congress (ANC), another bump on a difficult road for the historical post-apartheid party.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has lost a second court case against a new rival party led by former President Jacob Zuma.

Former president Jacob Zuma has been summoned by the African National Congress to appear before a disciplinary committee for campaigning for the opposition uMkhonto weSizwe Party, as reports appear about his alleged links to white supremacists.