JOHANNESBURG, Sept 20, 2007 (AFP) - Jacob Zuma's presidential ambitions received a major boost Thursday when South Africa's top union organisation endorsed the ANC deputy president to become the ruling party's next leader.

Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), a junior partner in the governing coalition, said a resolution passed at a central committee meeting would act as a guide to its members in December's election for the next president of the African National Congress (ANC).

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 14, 2007 (AFP) - A South African court on Friday ruled that a corruption probe of the deputy leader of the ruling African National Congress, Jacob Zuma, could continue.

'The court has today ruled in our favour. It puts us in a firm position to carry on with our work,' Tlali Tlali, a spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), told AFP.