* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

* Jacob Gould Schurman, President of Cornell University

Among those political prisoners was current President of South Africa Jacob Zuma who was imprisoned there for ten years.

In a leaked letter to Jacob Zuma in October 2008, just-resigned President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki alluded to the role the ANC created for her in the anti-apartheid activism:

Winnie secured fifth place on the ANC's electoral list for the 2009 general election, behind party president and current President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa Baleka Mbete, and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel.

* April 12 – Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa

* Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff: Jacob Lew

In 2007, Fonda was awarded an Honorary Palme d ' Or by Cannes Film Festival President Gilles Jacob for career achievement.

U. S. President Barack Obama had asked South African President Jacob Zuma to delay Aristide's departure to prevent him from returning to Haiti before a presidential run-off election scheduled for Sunday.

In 1978 Gilles Jacob assumed the President position, introducing the Caméra d ' Or award and the Un Certain Regard section.

The Festival's current President, Gilles Jacob, was appointed in 2000, and in 2002 the Festival officially adopted the name Festival de Cannes.

Leon Kieres, the President of IPN, also met in New York with Rabbi Jacob Baker ( formerly Yaakov Eliezer Piekarz ) who had emigrated in 1938 from Jedwabne to the United States.

David Jacob Eisenhower, the father of US President Dwight David Eisenhower, lived in a ranch near Hope from 1878 to his enrollment at Lane University.

In 1927, Oldsmobile President Irving Jacob Reuter and his wife Janet built Meadowvue, an English Tudor mansion, at which they lived for nine years.

Jacob Hardenburgh, a founder and later first President of Queens College ( Rutgers University ).

* Jacob Coxey, socialist and populist American politician, and minor party candidate for the office of President of the United States.

Members of the Borough Council are Council President Jacob Hoffmann, John Archibald, Jr., Roy Dellosso, Peter T. Doyle, Lou Fligor and Robert Sutton.

After decades of service, Jacob retired as Executive Secretary, and President Karl E. Mundt soon followed.

This region is the birthplace of many notable figures in South Africa's history, such as Pixley ka Isaka Seme ( founder of the African National Congress and the first Black lawyer in South Africa ), John Langalibalele Dube ( founding president of the ANC ), Mangosuthu Buthelezi ( founder of the IFP ), Chief Albert Luthuli ( ANC president and the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ), Anton Lembede ( founding president of the ANC Youth League ), Jacob Zuma ( current President of South Africa ), and Bhambatha.

President Jacob Zuma paid tribute to Ma Sisulu in the wake of her death.

President pro tempore of the Senate Jacob Read

In 2005, the unit instituted proceedings against the country's Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, leading to his dismissal.

H. M. Queen Elizabeth II has established the custom of awarding an honorary GCB to visiting heads of state, for example Gustav Heinemann, and Josip Broz Tito ( in 1972 ), Ronald Reagan ( in 1989 ), Lech Wałęsa ( in 1991 ), Dr. Censu Tabone, President of Malta, in 1992, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, George H. W. Bush ( in 1993 ), Nicolas Sarkozy in March 2008, Turkish President Abdullah Gül, Slovenian President Dr Danilo Türk Mexican President Felipe Calderón, and South African President Jacob Zuma.

The first President to be elected under the new constitution was Nelson Mandela, and the incumbent president is Jacob Zuma.

After the elections, the Freedom Front's leader Pieter Mulder was appointed as Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries by the new President Jacob Zuma.

President Zuma attended the official inauguration of the Ndlela monument in Eshowe, Kwazulu-Natal.

In attendance was the then Deputy President Jacob Zuma, and other ministers.

On 5 April 2009, the Independent Democrats confirmed De Lille's attendance at the announcement of the National Prosecuting Authority the following day regarding its decision either to drop or to maintain its case against ANC President Jacob Zuma, who had been implicated in the Arms Deal.

* Led by President Jacob Zuma, in office since 9 May 2009

In 2006, former Deputy President of South Africa Jacob Zuma furthered his claim of being " tried by the media " and has threatened to bring defamation action against various elements of the press for remarks that he alleges are defamatory.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

The President ended his address with an appeal to the people of the South: " We are not enemies, but friends.

* 1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.

* 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d ' état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam.

The President sanctioned similar actions in other states, including South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida and Texas.

* 1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

* 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.

At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.

In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.

On April 1970, US President Nixon announced to the American public that US and South Vietnamese ground forces had entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA base areas in Cambodia ( see Cambodian Incursion ).

He was elected President of the South African Baptist Union in 1949 and spent a year visiting churches and mission stations.

The armistice, concluded despite opposition from Secretary Dulles, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, and also within Eisenhower's party, has been described by biographer Ambrose as the greatest achievement of the administration ; Eisenhower had the insight to realize that unlimited war in the nuclear age was unthinkable, and limited war unwinnable.

In May 1957 Diem, then President of South Vietnam, made a state visit to the United States for ten days.

* 1927 – Kim Young-sam, 14th President of South Korea

* 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U. S. states.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

Another complication exists with South Africa, in which the President is in fact elected by the National Assembly ( legislature ) and is thus similar, in principle, to a head of government in a parliamentary system but also, in addition, is recognized as the nation's head of state.

The offices of President of Nauru and President of Botswana are similar in this respect to the South African presidency.