Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, was re-elected as the ANC’s (African National Congress) leader at a party leadership election, an ANC spokesman announced on Monday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa who is the champion of the anti-apartheid, came out victorious in a leadership challenge in front of his party on Monday. This came days after Ramaphosa was saved from the impeachment proceedings over a scandal dubbed “Farmgate”.
He became the president in 2018, his first term as the head of the state, after being elected party leader in 2017, and vowed to remove corruption completely and fix the economy. But when he was due to start campaigning for his next term, there were demands calling him to quit soon after an advisory panel received preliminary proof that indicated possible misconduct by him.
He has rejected committing any kind of misconduct and has not been charged with any crimes.
Ramaphosa led the African National Congress (ANC) in the negotiations that resulted in a peaceful end to apartheid in 1994, which pushed Nelson Mandela to become South Africa’s first Black president.
Despite his leadership works, Ramaphosa declared that he was quitting politics in 1996 and made an entry into business, the newly elected African National Congress of Mandela aimed to lessen the influence of the white minority in the South African nation’s boardrooms.
It is said that Ramaphosa was forced by Mandela’s disciple and eventual successor, former president Thabo Mbeki. He quitted politics while Mbeki was the president and installed an investment vehicle called Shanduka – which means “change” in the Venda language.
Unlisted Shanduka Holdings, which owns 10% of both Liberty Insurance and South Africa’s largest bank, Standard Bank, has grown to be one of the nation’s largest Black-owned firms.
Ramaphosa’s negotiating skills at talks regarding the constitution in the starting of 1990s earned him unwilling respect from South Africa’s last white president, FW de Klerk, who stated Ramaphosa’s “silver tongue and honeyed phrases lulled potential victims while his arguments relentlessly tightened around them”.
Ramaphosa was a pain for the white mine leaders in the 1980s, and became the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers in one of the biggest strikes in the nation’s history after wage talks were stalled.
He left the NUM in 1991 when he ousted ANC veteran Alfred Nzo as secretary-general and led the party to constitutional negotiations which culminated in 1994’s historic all-race vote.
Ramaphosa was one of the foremost beneficiaries of the ANC’s policy of Black Economic Empowerment, which was aimed at reducing inequality but which, critics said, resulted in well-networked powerful ANC people taking over assets at cheap prices.
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