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Jacob Zuma

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Also known as JZ, Msholozi, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, Jacob G. Zuma

4th President of South Africa (2009–2018)

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Jacob Zuma was the fourth President of South Africa, serving from 2009 to 2018. His presidency is significant in South African history because it was a consequential period in the post-apartheid era that shaped the country's political and economic development during that time.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Jacob Zuma is referenced by 1,547 other articles, and connects out to uMkhonto we Sizwe, HIV/AIDS and Thabo Mbeki.

It sits within the topics 1942 births, Anti-white racism in Africa and Deputy presidents of South Africa.

Its subject is documented across 94 Wikipedia language editions.

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  • Address by his excellency Mr Jacob Zuma, ANC president and state president of the Republic of South Africa

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Norway
Active from
1995

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
275
Total plays
422

3rd Democratic president of the Republic of South Africa. Does a bit of Karaoke singing on the side. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jacob+Zuma">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A power primer.

    · 1992 · cited 41,565x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,438x

  3. A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales

    · 1960 · cited 31,914x

  4. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,770x

  5. Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences

    · 2013 · cited 16,910x

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Quotes

  • Ever since I was born I have never been involved in corruption and I will never be corrupt.
  • Even today, I would fight and die for you. I say that without any hesitation because that is what I stood for when I joined the struggle. I will stand for it until the end.
  • Me?! What? I don’t know, unless I must go to the dictionary and learn what a crook is. I’ve never been a crook. ... I'm saying I'm not a crook, I have never been a crook. I will never be a crook.
  • As Africans, long before the arrival of religion and [the] gospel, we had our own ways of doing things, ... Those were times that the religious people refer to as dark days but we know that, during those times, there were no orphans or old-age homes. Christianity has brought along these things.
  • We are going to shoot them, they are going to run; We are going to shoot them, with the machine gun; They are going to run. You are a white man – We are going to hit them – and you are going to run! Shoot the Boer! We are going to hit them – they are going to run! The Cabinet will shoot them with the machine gun! The Cabinet will shoot them with the machine gun! Shoot the Boer!
  • All the trouble began in 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck landed in the Cape.

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Jacob Zuma
date of birth
1942-04-12
birth name
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
net worth
20000000
name in native language
Jacob Zuma
social media followers
646783
affiliation string
The Presidency of South Africa
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Encyclopedic overview

Political career

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