Places of Birth: Inkandla
Date of Birth : April 12, 1942
Zodiac : Aries
Nationally : South Africa
Jacob was born in Nkandla, Zululand, which is now part of KwaZulu-Natal. His father was a policeman who died when he was a child, while his mother was a domestic worker. Jacob no formal education whatsoever and often moving between Zululand and the suburbs of Durban. Jacob then involved in politics at a young age to join the African National Congress in 1959. He became an active member of Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1962 after the ANC was banned in 1961. In 1963, Jacob joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) , In the same year, Jacob was detained along with 45 other people near Zeerust, west Transvaal, for allegedly conspiring to overthrow Apartheid occupied by the white minority. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison who lived on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela and several other prominent ANC officials. Once free, Jacob again become an important person in the re-establishment of ANC underground structures in the province of Natal. In 1975, Jacob left South Africa for the first time and met with Thabo Mbeki in Swaziland. Jacob later became a member of the ANC National Executive Committee in 1977. He also served as Deputy Chief Representative of the ANC in Mozambique. After the agreement Nkomati Accord, Jacob was appointed as Chief Representative of the ANC. Jacob then active in the military and political assemblies ANC when the assembly is formed in the mid-1980s and was chosen as the SACP politburo in April 1989.
In January 1987, once again Zuma was forced to leave South Africa, this time as ordered by the government of Mozambique. He moved to the ANC Head Office in Lusaka, Zambia, where he was later appointed as Head of Underground Structure. Shortly thereafter he was appointed as Head of the Intelligence Department. After the banning of the ANC ended in February 1990, he was one of the first ANC leader who returned to South Africa to begin the negotiation process. In the same year, he was elected as the Chairman of the ANC for Christmas Setalan region and plays an important role in the fight against political violence that occurred between members of the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in that area. A year later, he was elected as Deputy Secretary General of the ANC. In 1994, Jacob was nominated as the ANC candidate for the Premiership of KwaZulu Natal. Jacob has gained a lot of experience in national leadership because he has started to be active in the ANC National Executive Committee since 1977 when the party was still in the liberal movement. When finally becomes president, Jacob had devote themselves to ANC for thirty years. After the elections in 1994 when the ANC into a government party, Jacob was appointed as a Member of the Executive Committee of Economic Affairs and Tourists to the provincial government of KwaZulu-Natal. In June 1999, Jacob was appointed as the Deputy President of South Africa. At that time, Jacob also worked in Kampala, Uganda, as facilitator of Burundi peace process with the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni.
On June 14, 2005, Jacob was dismissed from his position as deputy president for alleged corruption related to the purchase of arms worth $ 5 billion committed by the government of South Africa in 1999. At December 28, 2007, the National Prosecuting Authority to accuse Jacob in order to carry out justice in the High Court on various charges of money laundering, corruption, no violence, and extortion
In September 2008, the ANC decided that Thabo Mbeki is unfit to serve as president of South Africa. Ended the parliamentary support for Thabo and make it must resign from the presidency. Meanwhile, Kgalema Motlanthe, the deputy president of the ANC, will be a substitute president until general elections in 2009 was carried out. Due to the support of the ANC, Jacob was victorious in the elections held on May 6, 2009. He was sworn in as South African president on May 9, 2009. In addition to the allegations of corruption that ultimately did not proceed, Jacob was also accused of the rape of a 31-year-old woman in her home in Forest Town, Gauteng, in December 2005. She was reported to be one of the retainer ANC child who has died and is an AIDS activist HIV positive. Jacob denied the charges and considers consensual sex.
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