South Africa: Ramaphosa Scandal Looks Set to Intensify the ANC's Slide, Ushering in a New Era of Politics

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Ramaphosa Scandal Likely to Intensify Ruling Party's Slide TC_Africa: SouthAfrica

The African National Congress faces an increasingly uncertain future as the dominant political party in South Africa following the recent scandal engulfing its leader, President Cyril Ramaphosa.

The party has steadily been losing popular support for the past two decades. It went into the last general elections in 2019 with only one trump card -. He has been the party's main vote-winner following his predecessor Jacob Zuma's corrupt reign which ended in February 2018. The ANC built its 2019 election campaign around Ramaphosa, after polls showed that he was its the only leader who continued to enjoy substantial credibility among voters. Even then, the ANCBut Ramaphosa's image as an anti-corruption torchbearer - and vote winner - is in jeopardy after a controversial former spy boss laid- including money laundering and defeating the ends of justice - against him in early June 2022.

has wrecked the ANC's chances of emerging from future elections with an outright - albeit slim - majority.

 

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