[3][4] A 2023 report by the United Kingdom-based Centre for Information Resilience alleged that Zuma-Sambudla was at the centre of a Russian backed twitter campaign to increase support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine in South Africa.
[5][6] In 2023 she followed her father out of the African National Congress into the newly formed UMkhonto we Sizwe party.
[7] She appeared next to her father on the campaign trail and serves in the inner core group of the party.
[8] In July 2024, Zuma-Sambudla was elected to represent South Africa in the Pan-African Parliament.
[9] On 30 January 2025, Zuma-Sambudla was arrested on terrorism charges on suspicion of inciting violence on social media that contributed to the 2021 South African unrest.