South African President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed Tuesday to unite the deeply-fissured African National Congress (ANC) and root out graft after the ruling party re-elected him as leader despite anger over a growing scandal, IgbereTV reports
Ending a five-day conference where the ANC’s rifts were on stark display, Ramaphosa said his first five years as party chief had been a “difficult journey.”
“We have encountered many problems, at times we have met fierce resistance,” he told an audience of more than 4,000 delegates.
“I see my task as uniting the ANC,” he said.
Turning to the corruption which has deeply stained the party’s image, he declared, “We either deal with this problem or we perish as an organisation.”
