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muriel_volestrangler

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Mon Dec 18, 2017, 01:34 PM Dec 2017

Cyril Ramaphosa chosen to lead South Africa's ruling ANC party

Source: The Guardian

Cyril Ramaphosa, an anti-apartheid activist turned tycoon and politician, has been chosen by the African National Congress as its leader for the next five years.
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Almost 5,000 delegates voted in an internal party election held in a conference centre in Johannesburg. Ramaphosa won with 2,440 votes, against 2,261 for his rival, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
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The victory of Ramaphosa, 65, will come as a relief to those in South Africa who feared populist and potentially divisive policies from Dlamini-Zuma, a former senior minister and party stalwart who has promised “radical economic transformation”.

It will be a disappointment to those who believe Ramaphosa lacks the will to take measures needed to redistribute wealth and lift millions out of deep poverty.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/cyril-ramaphosa-chosen-to-lead-south-africas-ruling-anc-party

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Cyril Ramaphosa chosen to lead South Africa's ruling ANC party (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 OP
I don't see this going terribly well Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2017 #1
 

Sen. Walter Sobchak

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1. I don't see this going terribly well
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 02:58 PM
Dec 2017

The radicals who thought Zuma wasn't Mugabe-like enough will have none of Ramaphosa.

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