Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and former government minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma emerged as the two remaining candidates at the party conference late Sunday. The two are now competing for a majority of delegates from ANC branches throughout South Africa’s nine provinces and from the party’s Women’s and Youth League. Ramaphosa founded the politically influential National Union of Mineworkers and led the union through strikes that shocked the apartheid-era economy. The ANC’s National Executive Committee recalled former president Thabo Mbeki in 2008 after he lost the ANC presidency to Zuma. The party has remained firmly in the presidency since then, but its share of the electorate has decreased in each of the past three elections.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2017 20:46 UTC