The report said Zuma 'would do anything that the Guptas wanted him to do for them,' including firing competent ministers and senior officials at parastatal institutions, so that Gupta lackeys could be appointed to those positions.
In a televised statement he said he was quitting with immediate effect but said he disagreed with his African National Congress party's decision.
Shaik lost an appeal against his conviction and was sentenced to imprisionment on charges of corruption and fraud on Monday.
A summit of the world's top five emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- begins on Saturday in Goa.
The Gupta brothers are accused in South Africa of using their relationship with former president Zuma to profit financially and influence senior appointments, charges that they have vehemently denied.
A controversial lavish Indian wedding in South Africa has created a rift between President Jacob Zuma and the ruling African National Congress, according to a media report on Monday.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma got married for the fifth time on Monday to Tobeka Madiba at the village of Nkandla in northern KwaZulu-Natal province.
Announcing measures to tackle the impact of the global recession in his country, South African President Jacob Zuma pledged on Wednesday to create 500,000 jobs by the end of this year. Acknowledging that the economic crisis had hit the nation badly, Zuma said the government needed to minimise the impact of the recession primarily on the most vulnerable sectors.
The row over the landing of a private aircraft on a military airport for a lavish Indian wedding in South Africa snowballed into a political scandal on Thursday with a senior diplomat suspended and President Jacob Zuma deciding not to attend 'the marriage of the century'.
A politically-connected business dynasty that moved to South Africa from India, the Gupta family finds itself at the centre of many of the scandals that have dogged now former president Jacob Zuma's administration. A day after the ruling African National Congress ordered Zuma out of office, the Guptas' prominent role in his presidency was highlighted. So who are the Guptas and how close are their links to Zuma?
While celebrating our democracy and its biggest rituals we also need to think about the kind of society we are building.
South African President Jacob Zuma has said that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is "ready" to implement an African Union plan to end the Libyan conflict. He, however, remained silent on his plans to leave Libya, something that the rebels have insisted on, prior to any settlement.
South African President Jacob Zuma has acknowledged the role of the Indian community in his State of the Nation address at the opening of the Parliament in Cape Town.
Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela's condition remains "critical but stable", South African President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday hoping he will be out of the hospital soon.
The condition of former President Nelson Mandela is critical, the South African presidency has said, two weeks after the 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon was admitted to a hospital with a recurrent lung infection. President Jacob Zuma and African National Congress deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa visited Mandela on Sunday evening, Mac Maharaj, presidential spokesman, said in a statement.
South Africa's revered anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was "responding well to treatment" following a "difficult few days" after being readmitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection.
Nelson Mandela, the iconic South African anti-apartheid icon who spent 27 years in prison, died early on Friday morning IST. He was 95.
Suspended Cricket South Africa CEO Gerald Majola is taking his bosses as well as president Jacob Zuma and Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula to court in an attempt to get his position back.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela remains in a critical condition in hospital.
Anti-apartheid icon and former South African President Nelson Mandela is responding "satisfactorily" to treatment and is "much better" after spending a week in a hospital for pneumonia, the presidency said on Wednesday.
Nelson Mandela, the revered anti-apartheid icon and former South African President, is in "good spirits" and making "steady progress" at a hospital for a recurring lung infection, the presidency said on Friday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday arrived at Pretoria on a three-day visit to attend the trilateral India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summit during which he is expected to focus on global issues like the difficult economic scenario and United Nations reforms.
Relatives of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela Tuesday gathered at his rural ancestral home in Qunu to discuss "delicate matters" relating to the 94-year-old leader who is battling for his life at a hospital.
Nelson Mandela spent a fourth day in intensive care and continued to be in a "serious but stable" condition, as security was beefed up today at the hospital where the 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon is battling a recurrent lung infection.
Amid worldwide alarm over a radiation scare in Japan following the tsunami, India and other nations from the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa group on Thursday pressed for strict adherence to safety norms with regard to nuclear facilities and a proposal was floated for mutual assistance in similar incidents.
A wealthy Indian family in Johannesburg has apologised to the Indian and South African governments as well as to the public for triggering a huge scandal in their effort to host a "memorable" wedding for their daughter that led to the suspension of five senior officials and a probe.
an President Dimitry Medvedev, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazil President Dilma Rousseff and South African President Jacob Zuma will participate in the summit hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to a hospital for a medical checkup, amid growing speculation over the health of the anti-apartheid hero. Visitors, including top ANC officials, continued to flock to the Milpark Hospital for a second day as Nobel Laureate Mandela, 92, remained under observation for "routine tests", as stated by his Foundation.
The theme of the Summit is "BRICS Partnership for Global Stability, Security and Prosperity". Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will host President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, President Dimitry Medvedev of Russia, President Hu Jintao of China and President Jacob Zuma of South Africa at the Summit.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has not yet firmed up any bilateral or pull-aside meetings with South African President Jacob Zuma during the two-day G-20 Summit at Pittsburgh, but officials accompanying him have not ruled out such a possibility.
In the backdrop of the global economy being buffeted by a series of ill winds that have put a question mark over the profligacy of European nations and brought to the fore the resultant debt crisis, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will leave for Pretoria, South Africa, on Monday to attend the fifth trilateral India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summit.
Togo's national team will return home and not compete in Africa's biggest soccer tournament, captain Emmanuel Adebayor said on Sunday, after gunmen killed a squad coach and press officer in an ambush.
South African President Jacob Zuma thanked Commerce Minister Anand Sharma for India's support in the matter, when the two met here this morning. India had been lobbying for South Africa's inclusion.
A glittering closing ceremony, with dash of glitz and glamour, drew curtains on the second edition of the Indian Premier League razzmatazz in Johannesburg, on Sunday night. Soon after the Adam Gilchrist-led Deccan Chargers pipped Anil Kumble's Royal Challengers Bangalore in the see-saw final, cricket paved way to entertainment at the Wanderers Stadium.
A small but much-prized soccer trophy on display in a cell of Robben Island prison is a reminder of how football touched the lives of the activists locked up there by the apartheid regime.
An Indian-origin man, who founded a humanitarian aid organisation that has provided relief to people worldwide, has received one of South Africa's highest honours.
Capping a prolonged power struggle within the country's ruling African National Congress, South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday night announced his resignation but denied the charge of interfering with justice in a corruption case to nail his challenger for the top post Jacob Zuma."Fellow South Africans, since the attainment of our freedom in 1994, we have acted consistently to respect and defend the independence of the judiciary," he said.
South African president Jacob Zuma and a host of Bollywood stars, led by Shahrukh Khan, will be joined by the biggest crowd ever at a cricket match on the African continent to honour iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar and pacer Makhaya Ntini at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Sunday.
Shaik had been sentenced to 15 years each on two counts of corruption and three years for fraud.
Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has been selected as a member of the United Nations' high-level panel on global sustainability.
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