{"id":627,"date":"2017-12-18T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T17:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/2017\/12\/18\/cyril-ramaphosa-wins-anc-presidential-race\/"},"modified":"2017-12-18T17:50:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T17:50:52","slug":"cyril-ramaphosa-wins-anc-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/cyril-ramaphosa-wins-anc-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyril Ramaphosa wins ANC presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/YfaFbXQK1m10G8wjrTE-Tl-ia_I4A35dyLecQrZfx-dCLMMO8Umx93H2YevqhmbY9zPpAKf_PAv4yJBV2FSgVqA=s1200\" style=\"padding-top: 68.7777777778%;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/YfaFbXQK1m10G8wjrTE-Tl-ia_I4A35dyLecQrZfx-dCLMMO8Umx93H2YevqhmbY9zPpAKf_PAv4yJBV2FSgVqA=s750\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cyril Ramaphosa.\" width=\"519\" height=\"407\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cyril Ramaphosa is the new president of the African National Congress (ANC), it was announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p \/>A total of 4,776 delegates began casting their ballots in  the early hours of Monday to choose between the party&#8217;s deputy president  and former African Union chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa received 2,261 votes while his rival, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, received 2,440 votes.<\/p>\n<p>A former trade union leader, he led the historic  negotiations in the 1990s to end apartheid before launching a business  career that made him one of South Africa&#8217;s wealthiest men. He has  promised to tackle state capture and corruption, and prioritise economic  growth\u201a job creation\u201a education and land reform.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are how the other positions are stacking up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Mabuza won the deputy president position, beating Lindiwe Sisulu;<\/li>\n<li>Former general-secretary Gwede Mantashe beat Nathi Mthethwa for the position of national chairperson;<\/li>\n<li>The new secretary-general is Ace Magashule who narrowly beat Senzo Mchunu;<\/li>\n<li>Jessie Duarte has retained her position of deputy secretary-general, defeating\u00a0Zingiswa Losi;<\/li>\n<li>a<span>nd the new treasurer-general is <\/span><span>Paul Mashatile, who defeated <\/span><span>Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/anc-conference-2017\/2017-12-18-cyril-ramaphosa-wins-anc-presidential-race\/\" title=\"www.timeslive.co.za\">TIMESLIVE.CO.ZA<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyril Ramaphosa is the new president of the African National Congress (ANC), it was announced&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}