South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has staked his reputation on cleaning up the image of the ruling African National Congress, will lead the party toward its biggest test of the democratic e
ra when South Africans vote on Wednesday. Ramaphosa, who helped found the country’s biggest mining union and later became one of its wealthiest businessmen, took on the presidency in 2018 and survived a misconduct scandal to be re-elected to the ANC’s helm in 2022. He has struggled to lift economic growth, make a dent in high unemployment with a third of South Africans jobless, or end crippling power cuts — all of which voters are expected to punish the ANC for at the ballot box on May 29.
Ramaphosa’s negotiating skills at constitutional talks in the early 1990s won him grudging respect from South Africa’s last white president, F.W. de Klerk, who said Ramaphosa’s “silver tongue and honeyed phrases lulled potential victims while his arguments relentlessly tightened around them.” Ramaphosa started winding down his business interests in 2012, when he became the ANC’s No. 2 official under former President Jacob Zuma.
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