Cyril Ramaphosa will not exactly say if he would be Dlamini-Zuma’s deputy
Cyril Ramaphosa says the ANC’s leaders must unite the party at its elective conference next week. "Our movement is divided and there are factions," the deputy president said on Thursday night on 702 Talk Radio. "The challenge that we face, particularly going into this conference, is how we are going to unite the ANC and how we will emerge out of this conference united." The winner from the conference to pick a successor to President Jacob Zuma as the party’s head will be its presidential candidate in the 2019 elections. The election has caused deep rifts within the 105-year-old ANC, weighed on the rand and bonds and unnerved investors seeking political and policy clarity. Ramaphosa didn’t give an explicit answer during Thursday’s broadcast when asked whether he would, if defeated in the leadership contest, accept the position of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s deputy. "If, for instance I am not successful to become president, I will have to reflect on whether I should be deployed elsewhere...
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