OPINION: Ramaphosa has given the ruling ANC a new image
The unexpected win for the ANC was a resounding victory for Cyril Ramaphosa. It was a huge vote of confidence by the electorate in him and not so much for the ANC.
If the ANC under Ramaphosa lost, the Zuma faction would have pushed for a coalition with the splinter parties and hopefully roped the EFF in with an offer to make Julius Malema the president, an offer he would have found hard to refuse. Ramaphosa’s popularity even took Malema by surprise. He accused Ramaphosa of not being voted as a president and challenged him to go on election campaign. Well, Ramaphosa did, and gave them all a thrashing.
Ramaphosa did not have the support of Cosatu, nor did he need it. Irvin Jim of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party got only 5000 votes from his 300000 members, which means that the rest went to Ramaphosa. So much for the power of our unions.
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