- Washington “follows with interest” Morocco’s openness onto Africa (John Kerry)Posted 11 years ago
- The trial of South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius opened in Pretoria on Monday.Posted 11 years ago
- USA welcomes efforts of King Mohammed VI in MaliPosted 11 years ago
- Egypt’s population reaches 94 millionPosted 11 years ago
- Mugabe celebrates his 90thPosted 11 years ago
- Moroccan Monarch to Build a Perinatal Clinic in BamakoPosted 11 years ago
- King Mohammed VI handed a donation of bovine semen for the benefit of Malian breeders.Posted 11 years ago
- Moroccan King’s strategic tour to Africa: Strengthening the will of pan African Solidarity and stimulating the south-south cooperation mechanisms over the continentPosted 12 years ago
- Senior al-Qaida leader killed in AlgeriaPosted 12 years ago
- Libya: The trial of former Prime Minister al-Baghdadi AliPosted 12 years ago
South Africa: Deputy President Ramaphosa elected leader of ruling ANC
Country’s Vice President and businessman Cyril Ramaphosa won Monday ruling African National Congress (ANC)’s leadership voting process becoming 14th President of the party and the likely future president of the country in 2019, the year the current President Jacob Zuma’s mandate will end.
Ramaphosa won therace by the narrow margin to beat Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma; former African Union (AU) Commission chairperson.
Ramaphosa received 2,440 and Dlamini-Zuma 2,261 votes held at Nasrec exhibition center
Ramaphosa will lead the troubled ANC party for next five years and is expected to unify the party.
The new leader is a disciple of the former country icon Nelson Mandela. He was viewed as the future leader the party when the latter dies. Ramaphosa retired from politics and emrassed business but only made his comeback in 2012 after being appointed as Vice-President.
The opposition believes that Ramaphosa’s election will not change anything given all division in the party and corruptions scandals in which President Zuma is marred.
“The ANC is dead and cannot self-correct, no matter who is at the helm,” DA leader Mmusi Maimane said in a statement shortly after the result was announced.
“This is because the party itself is held together only by the glue of patronage and corruption and Cyril Ramaphosa is just a new face to the same old ANC,”said Democratic Alliance (DA) said in a statement.
