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JOHANNESBURG - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has staked his reputation on cleaning up the image of the ruling African National Congress, will lead the party toward its biggest test of the democratic era when South Africans vote on Wednesday.Ramaphosa, who helped found the country's biggest mining union and later became one of its wealthiest businessmen, took on the presidency in 2018 and survived a misconduct scandal to be re-elected to the ANC's helm in 2022.
Ramaphosa was the ANC's lead negotiator during talks that led to a peaceful end to apartheid, which enabled Nelson Mandela to become South Africa's first Black president after 1994's historic all-race vote.Despite his evident gifts, Ramaphosa gave up politics in 1996 and entered business, as Mandela's newly elected ANC sought to dilute the dominance of the white minority in the boardrooms of the new South Africa.
He left the NUM in 1991 and was elected secretary-general of the ANC, in charge of the day-to-day running of the party, a year after it was unbanned by the apartheid government. He replaced Zuma as ANC leader in 2017, vowing to rid the ruling party of graft and revitalise the economy. Policy changes on energy security, jobs and the green energy transition stumbled on internal party divisions, and several committees he created have only dragged out these disagreements.
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