Cyril Ramaphosa

In what has been a whirlwind elective conference, President Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected yet again as the ANC's 15th President.

[*Read more on results from the elective conference.](https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/live-blog-rolling-coverage-of-day-four-of-the-55th-anc-national-conference-af58ceb9-c3e6-4d0b-8124-8fffdf19157d) [elective conference](https://www.iol.co.za/trends/anc-elective-conference), President [Cyril Ramaphosa](https://www.iol.co.za/tags/cyril-ramaphosa) has been elected yet again as the ANC's 15th President. [Zweli Mkhize](https://www.iol.co.za/tags/zweli-mkhize) who came in second place with 1897 votes

In an overwhelming vote of confidence in his reform agenda, President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected ANC leader during a highly contested internal party ...

Against other hard currencies it had strengthened 0.91% to R21.08/£ and 1.28% to R18.36/€. The JSE all share was little moved but the banking index was up 2.8%. His re-election bodes well for the struggling economy and financial markets as economic pundits warned in the build-up to the five-day elective conference that the economy risked collapsing if Ramaphosa were to lose the election to the radical economic transformation (RET) faction of the party. Prior to the announcement, the rand had firmed about 0.5% to the dollar. Once it was confirmed that Ramaphosa would indeed serve a second term as ANC president, the rand extended its gain to 1.8%, to R17.22/$. A clear gap has emerged for finance’s role in the transition to a low carbon economy

Mr Ramaphosa won despite being dogged by allegations of money laundering, and a last-minute surge in support for Mr Mkhize, who has also been accused of ...

But opinion polls suggest that its vote has shrunk considerably because of widespread corruption in government, high unemployment and poor public services - including constant power cuts. But no leader from KwaZulu-Natal, the political heartland of Mr Zuma, was elected to any of the ANC's top seven posts, in the latest sign of his and the region's declining influence in the party. Mr Mashatile is now the front-runner to become South Africa's deputy president, and president in the event Mr Ramaphosa is forced out of power.

The rand appreciated sharply on Monday as investors welcomed the re-election of president Cyril Ramaphosa as leader of the ruling ANC.

In 2017, Ramaphosa won with 2 440 votes against Ramaphosa did not win with his complete slate. The rand tumbled 4% and bond yields spiked to their highest levels since 2020. [Investec](https://mg.co.za/tag/investec/) chief economist [Annabel Bishop](https://mg.co.za/tag/annabel-bishop/) said she believed there would be a cabinet reshuffle next year. [Phala Phala](https://mg.co.za/tag/phala-phala/) scandal and rumours the president may resign. [Cyril Ramaphosa](https://mg.co.za/tag/cyril-ramaphosa/) as leader of the ruling ANC.

The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal says it supports President Cyril Ramaphosa after he was re-elected party leader for the second term at Nasrec Expo Centre, ...

Today it has been confirmed that ANC cadres are serious about renewal,” said Ngqondi. Some of us have been despised by those who are against the renewal of the ANC. “The ANC conference has spoken, we've elected the top seven, which is our leadership elected by branches.

Former unionist's path to victory had been clouded by fallout over theft at private game farm.

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The re-election of Cyril Ramaphosa as president of the African National Congress (ANC) for a second five-year term has drawn vastly different reactions from ...

We are happy that the president is back and we can get back to serving our people." Cyril couldn't have emerged, so it's the money that has made him emerge, that's what I can say." The re-election of Cyril Ramaphosa as president of the African National Congress (ANC) for a second five-year term has drawn vastly different reactions from two of the party's coastal provinces.

Ramaphosa hit the headlines as he introduced Nelson Mandela to the thousands of supporters outside the Cape Town City Hall, where Nelson Mandela delivered ...

Two months later, the day after Zuma resigned on 14 February 2018, the National Assembly (NA) elected Ramaphosa as president of South Africa. As of August 2017, Ramaphosa had 100 Ankole breeding cows at his Ntaba Nyoni farm in Mpumalanga. When he retreated from active politics in 1997, Ramaphosa became a director of New Africa Investments Limited. He returned to politics in December 2012 at the ANC's 53rd National Conference and served as the deputy president of South Africa under President Jacob Zuma from 2014 to 2018. In this regard, he rose to prominence for his role as head of the ANC delegation that negotiated the end of apartheid with the government in November 1991. His credentials for the Struggle against apartheid can be traced to his activism in student politics at the University of the North, which is now the University of Limpopo.

Momentum has shifted and latest data suggests Mkhize is now ahead in the race with support from KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, ...

This is expected to split the president’s votes thereby making it for Mashatile. Although he did not visit Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Western Cape and North West, his lobbyists worked tirelessly which resulted in him getting a sizeable number of delegates to his favour. Perhaps the biggest surprise for Mkhize was when he won Free State which was reportedly behind the current president. Mkhize’s political advisers’ strategy of nominating Paul Mashatile, Mokonyane and Mzwandile all from Gauteng appeared to have worked well since latest figures show that about 50% delegates would vote for him. After his visit three weeks to the conference Mkhize came back with the guarantee of 162 votes out of 251 delegates. Mkhize’s first stop was in eKurhuleni in Gauteng where his running mates Nomvula Mokonyane, Mzwandile Masina and Phumulo Masuale officially clarified that they were going with him.

The South African president is in a tight race with former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize to lead party.

Mr Ramaphosa had faced calls to resign ahead of the conference over an alleged cover up of theft of a large sum of foreign currency that was hidden in a sofa at his private farm. The former health minister was forced to leave office last year after allegations emerged that a communications company linked to his family benefited from a contract at the height of the Covid pandemic. South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is in a tight party leadership race against his former health minister - who he forced to resign amid corruption allegations.