Jacob Zuma

The media has been obsessed with the developments in South African president Jacob Zuma's Lenin-esque nude portrait saga. Brands and consumers alike have meanwhile taken to social media with offerings of their Spear of the Nation memes. Below is a selection of our favourites.1. Gabriel's image is hard to absorbGabriel ...

A recently displayed painting of South African president Jacob Zuma with his penis out has polarised certain sections of that country. Now the painting has been vandalised, stirring up emotions on social media.The painting by artist Brett Murray compares Zuma's phallus to a spear and has been on display ...

South African president Jacob Zuma wants his country’s citizens to lay out their troubles on social media ahead of his State of the Nation address, scheduled for 9 February.This is the second year-running that Zuma has turned to social media as a means of addressing the concerns of the ...

Online satirical puppet show, ZANEWS, has found a new home on satellite television provider TopTV's flagship channel, Top One.ZANEWS keeps its audience abreast with a mix of the latest and most controversial current events in a "witty and unorthodox way". The site parodies the ...

The high-profile disciplinary hearing of ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has so far reached an astonishing 8 419 565 individuals, "costing" South Africa about US$277 331 in negative publicity. This is the finding of Cape Town-based online Reputation Management Company (ORM), BrandsEye. ORM is the monitoring, engaging and conversion ...

With very little fanfare, the office of the South African Presidency, in a fitting move -- not via a press-conference or a press release but via a tweet - announced that Jacob Zuma had joined Twitter. His first, and at the time of writing, only tweet was:His "lack of activity" ...

Social media was certainly officially present, but not fussed over at the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa which was held in Cape Town, South Africa. Without any specific headline focus on technology, the keynote plenary session kicked off with South African President Jacob Zuma as leaders assessed the ...

The State of the Nation address delivered by President Jacob Zuma on Thursday evening, and the drinking game that accompanied it, was Twitter's number one trending topic early on Friday morning. Renowned blogger Khaya Dlanga and South African radio shock jock Gareth Cliff had a big hand in spreading the ...

Barely a week ago, the youth league of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa's ruling party, took issue with the social media world following the recent Malema vs Twitter brouhaha. Now there's a new video doing the rounds on YouTube that is bound to get tongues wagging. It's by ...

Do you have a bone to pick with those in power? Are you funny and tech-savvy with too much time on your hands? If so, then you’re in the prime demographic to do some Twitterjacking, a passive form of identity theft on Twitter.All you need to do is pick ...