Cyril Ramaphosa Wins A.N.C. Leadership Battle in South Africa
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Cyril Ramaphosa Wins A.N.C. Leadership Battle in South Africa
But party leaders have been alarmed at the A.N.C.’s rapid decline and Mr. Zuma is so widely discredited
that party leaders could replace him with Mr. Ramaphosa before the 2019 elections to improve the A.N.C.’s chances.
" Gwede Mantashe, the A.N.C.’s secretary general and a Ramaphosa ally, said as voting
was taking place on Monday. that We don’t want to be relegated to a rural party,
With his victory on Monday, Mr. Ramaphosa is almost certain to become South Africa’s next president,
thanks to the A.N.C.’s dominance in Parliament, which chooses the nation’s leader.
After a fierce and tight race that exposed the stark divisions in the party, the A.N.C.’s 4,708 delegates
voted by a margin of 179 ballots for Mr. Ramaphosa, 65, currently South Africa’s deputy president.
Mr. Zuma, who will cease to be party leader this week but whose term as the country’s president does not end until 2019, will leave his successor a number of problems, but one above all: a once-heroic liberation party
that has now become associated with graft, cronyism and incompetence and that has been losing core supporters.
18, 2017
JOHANNESBURG — In a humbling rebuke to President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, the African National Congress chose an anti-apartheid hero
and business tycoon as its new leader on Monday, positioning him to become Mr. Zuma’s successor.
But party leaders have been alarmed at the A.N.C.’s rapid decline and Mr. Zuma is so widely discredited
that party leaders could replace him with Mr. Ramaphosa before the 2019 elections to improve the A.N.C.’s chances.
" Gwede Mantashe, the A.N.C.’s secretary general and a Ramaphosa ally, said as voting
was taking place on Monday. that We don’t want to be relegated to a rural party,
With his victory on Monday, Mr. Ramaphosa is almost certain to become South Africa’s next president,
thanks to the A.N.C.’s dominance in Parliament, which chooses the nation’s leader.
After a fierce and tight race that exposed the stark divisions in the party, the A.N.C.’s 4,708 delegates
voted by a margin of 179 ballots for Mr. Ramaphosa, 65, currently South Africa’s deputy president.
Mr. Zuma, who will cease to be party leader this week but whose term as the country’s president does not end until 2019, will leave his successor a number of problems, but one above all: a once-heroic liberation party
that has now become associated with graft, cronyism and incompetence and that has been losing core supporters.
18, 2017
JOHANNESBURG — In a humbling rebuke to President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, the African National Congress chose an anti-apartheid hero
and business tycoon as its new leader on Monday, positioning him to become Mr. Zuma’s successor.