South Africa’s Cattle King President (Cyril Ramaphosa)

- New York Review of Books

Last Monday in Johannesburg, Cyril Ramaphosa, one of South Africa’s wealthiest mennarrowly won a party election to succeed the corrupt and compromised Jacob Zuma as president of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). This puts him in line to become the country’s fifth democratically-elected president. Many think he should have been the second: he was Nelson Mandela’s preferred heir, but was displaced by Zuma and his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, in 1994. He has been playing the long game ever since.

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