Cyril Ramaphosa; David Mabusa
Election of Cyril Ramaphosa as ANC chief rocks delegates
On Monday, South African Communist Party and Goldman Sachs candidate Cyril Ramaphosa beat former AU Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma to become the African National Congress' president. He takes over from outgoing ANC president Jacob Zuma.
Published: December 19, 2017, 7:34 am
On Monday following the election of the ANC’s new top six members at the party’s 54th National Elective Conference, the result left most of the delegates in the hall confused, with many seemingly stunned in disbelief and bewilderment.
A mere 179 votes separated Ramaphosa from his rival. He won by 2440 votes, while Dlamini Zuma received 2261 votes.
Ramaphosa might have won the battle, but the composition of the party’s top six will provide the toughest test of his leadership yet as the executive branch are all Dlamini Zuma heavyweights.
Apart from the secretariat positions going to the pro-Dlamini Zuma supporters, David DMabuza won the powerful position of deputy president effectively pitting him against Ramaphosa.
Mabuza was elected deputy president, Ace Magashule the secretary general and globalist darling Gauteng chairperson Paul Mashatile was voted treasurer general. Jessie Duarte retained her position as deputy secretary general.
Mabuza told News24 that there was a lot of division that the new leadership collective needed to address, after the announcement of the new leadership left supporters on both sides stunned.
Many claimed they had been betrayed by their comrades while others backtracked from previous comments they had made during the lead up to the conference in order to be seen to be on the winning side.
Even the radical ANC Youth League said it would throw its weight behind Ramaphosa and work with him, despite their past stinging criticism of him.
Meanwhile ANC KwaZulu-Natal delegation leader Sihle Zikalala said it was an “unfortunate” result. “For us in KwaZulu-Natal, it is not a sad day, but it’s a good lesson. It’s a lesson that divisions undermine your strength.”
KwaZulu-Natal will be pushing for their desired outcome to see land expropriation without compensation become future policy.
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