By Simon Nare
The next few days will reveal whether President Cyril Ramaphosa is hanging on by a thread or still holds meaningful power within the ANC.
The ANC, the oldest liberation movement in Africa, will hold its five-day National General Council (NGC) from Monday, with nearly 1,700 delegates expected to gather at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni.
Ramaphosa enters the party’s NGC fresh from a successful G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg, where he projected South Africa’s diplomatic stature and won plaudits from global leaders.
At home, however, he faces a harsher reality: a weak economy, rising crime and corruption, and a party in turmoil.
Ramaphosa, a former anti-apartheid activist and trade union leader, must persuade ANC delegates at the NGC that he remains the most credible leader to guide the organisation toward the next Local Government Elections and beyond.
His task is complicated by the ANC’s historic
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