A Daughter of Former President Zuma is involved in Russian Recruitment Scheme.

Last week, one of Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s daughters (Zuma has twenty children from six wives) was implicated in a scheme to recruit mercenaries for the Russian Army. According to a report in Al Jazeera, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, a member of her father’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party since 2024, is alleged to have forced 17 South African men to enlist for military service with a Russian private military contractor (PMC). One of the more mind-boggling elements of this story is that, allegedly, eight of the seventeen men recruited were members of Zuma’s own family. Also, these claims emerged only after an affidavit was filed against her by her own half sister, Nkosazana Bonganini Zuma Mncube.  Shortly after these claims, Zuma Sambudla resigned as an MP and was replaced by her half-sister, Brumelda Zuma. It is unclear what will happen next, but clearly, the political and family dynamics of the Zumas are quite complex.