Jacob Zuma - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Jacob Zuma Index / People Transcripts Todd Stern ...was definitely not at the airport, and [Jacob] Zuma from South Africa and Lula. Those fou... ...talked on the phone with Modi, Xi, and [Jacob] Zuma from South Africa all in that two o... Patrick Gaspard ...this period of real turbulence because Jacob Zuma by then had become deeply entrenched i... ...was also a time of reckoning, Nicole. Jacob Zuma had taken the project of reconciliatio... ...sense of Mandela's nonracial society. Jacob Zuma was creating what was called th... ...of most politics anywhere in the world. Jacob Zuma was, for me, not dissimilar to th... ...grassroots charisma. If you saw Jacob Zuma speaking at the United Nations in hi... ...and you went out to Zulu country with Jacob Zuma , and you saw him speaking in hi... ...back in the '90s, very early, about Jacob Zuma . I met Zuma way back then; I met Zum... ...said, “Let me tell you a story about Jacob Zuma .” He was part of the second generatio... ...educated or quite stealth educated. Jacob Zuma was a street thug. He was a gang kid... ...he's still a street thug. What does Jacob Zuma do when he gets to Robben Island... ...can't. We're going to have to scheme. Jacob Zuma figures out that, “Oh, I know the wa... ...I know the way to power in the future.” Jacob Zuma becomes the commissioner of the sport... ...important here—while we can criticize Jacob Zuma for being terribly corrupt and fo... ...for AIDS, when you compare that to what Jacob Zuma did, it's night and day. Jacob Zum... ...Jacob Zuma did, it's night and day. Jacob Zuma took the AIDS challenge very seriously... ...have me on this one.” [Laughs] But Jacob Zuma did all of that. So, you asked me ho... ...African government on this—because Jacob Zuma 's folks were like, “Wait a secon... ...when you're an autocrat—which is what Jacob Zuma was—you're not interested in the nex... ...so he was running the political arm of Jacob Zuma 's government—he said this on record i... Show more... Derek Chollet ...kicking around. AU [African Union] head Jacob Zuma , the president of South Africa, was ... Ben Rhodes ...people than with [Yoweri] Museveni or [Jacob] Zuma . It was like, “Oh, now I'm with th... Alan Fitts ...wife was going to greet us, because President [Jacob] Zuma had multiple wives. Johannesburg, ... ...seeing the first lady. We assumed that President Zuma would probably stop in, and we pulle... Jeffrey Bader ...fairly passive at the meeting. I think [Jacob] Zuma didn't really understand the issues... Related Topics go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Russia Russia go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the The People's House The People's House