It was announced late Sunday night that the Former president Jacob Zuma has lost one of his sons‚ Vusi Nhlakanipho Zuma who died in Johannesburg after a short illness.
Vusi Nhlakanipho Zuma is the youngest of five children born to the ANC leader and Kate Mantsho‚ who committed suicide. He is believed to have been born in 1993. His siblings include the well-known twins Duduzane and Duduzile.

Sympathies and comforts are pouring in to the Zuma family through this hard time, some of peoples who have sent their condolences are the Reverend Jesse Jackson a civil rights, Baptists Minister and politician from the United States of America, Zelda la Grange the former aide of the late president Nelson Mandela and the Economic Freedom Fighters a South African far-left political party, that has been described by some political analysts as being fascist or racial nationalist in nature.