ANALYSIS: Three party leaders battle it out in the elections SAElections2019
South Africa goes to the polls on Wednesday when leaders of the three main parties vie for votes in a race that could test the ruling ANC's long-held dominance.Cyril Ramaphosa, the leader of the ruling ANC party, finally came to power last year after a dramatic and varied career intertwined with the birth of modern South Africa.
Ramaphosa had called for a crackdown on the strikers, whom he accused of"dastardly criminal" behaviour. "This is a decisive moment in our country, in the history of South Africa. This is a moment when... we choose hope over despair," he told supporters at the final ANC campaign rally. His rapid promotion led to accusations that he was being used by the party's senior white activists to cover up lack of reform within the party.
Before getting into politics, Maimane ran his own management consultancy and lectured at a business school in Johannesburg.
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