Nine South Africans, including President Jacob Zuma and DA leader Helen Zille, made the list of global magazine Foreign Policy's 500 most powerful people.

"Think of it as a list of all the most important other lists," it described the list on its website.

"[It is] our inventory of the people who control the commanding heights of the industries that run the world, from politics to high finance, media to energy, warfare to religion."
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