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Ramaphosa Re-elected As South African President

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Dec 19, 2022.

Ramaphosa has been re-elected as the South African President under ANC.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected as the President of South Africa under the African National Congress.

Ramaphosa won his re-election bid with 2,476 votes to defeat his rival, a former health minister, Zweli Mkhize.

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His re-election comes after his opponents asked him to step down over a scandal known as ‘Farmscandal’ involving the discovery of a stash of cash at his farm.

Ramaphosa survived a parliamentary vote last week coming from the corruption scandal of his farm Phala Phala dubbed “Farmgate.”

A few ANC party members of parliament (MPs) rebelled via the ballot, but Ramaphosa had been widely tipped to secure re-election for a second five-year term.

However, his campaign was dogged by the Farmgate scandal that broke in June, involving large sums of foreign currency found hidden at his private game farm.

The country’s leader denied wrongdoing and has not been charged with any crimes over the scandal, but it has raised questions about how he acquired the money and whether he declared it.

Ramaphosa’s main opponent for the leadership was Zweli Mkhize, who was the health minister during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic until Ramaphosa put him on special leave last year.