JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Friday defended his finance minister from attacks from the ruling party's youth wing and called for action to be taken against ANC members who continue to argue publicly. His comments, in a letter published on the party's website, are the strongest yet following public spats between members of the ...

President Jacob Zuma visited a shantytown outside Johannesburg on Friday vowing to improve public services and in the hope of defusing anger that has erupted into protests ahead of the World Cup. Zuma swept to the presidency in last year's elections on the back of promises to improve services like water, sewerage and electricity for the 43 percent of ...

South Africa's ruling party says it used its overwhelming majority in the nation's parliament to throw out a no confidence vote in President Jacob Zuma. The African National Congress says the opposition's no confidence motion was frivolous and baseless and the parliament reaffirmed its full confidence ...

South African President Jacob Zuma said his talks on Thursday with Zimbabwe's feuding leaders were "fruitful", but revealed no major breakthrough in resolving issues straining Harare's unity government. "I am very encouraged by the spirit of cooperation displayed by the leaders and all the parties," Zuma said after nearly three hours of round-table talks with Zimbabwe's long-ruling ...