Cyril Ramaphosa: The Road to Presidential Power

Author:   Anthony Butler
Publisher:   James Currey
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9781847012296


Pages:   528
Publication Date:   17 May 2019
Format:   Hardback
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President Cyril Ramaphosa is South Africa's fifth post-apartheid president. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as the founder of the National Union of Mineworkers. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, Ramaphosa was at the head of the reception committee that greeted him. Chosen as secretary general of the African National Congress in 1991, Ramaphosa led the ANC's team in negotiating the country's post-apartheid constitution.Thwarted in his ambition to succeed Mandela, he exchanged political leadership for commerce, ultimately becoming one of the country's wealthiest businessmen, a breeder of exotic cattle, and a philanthropist. This fully revised and extended edition charts Ramaphosa's early life and education, and his career in trade unionism - including the 1987 21-day miners' strike when he committed the union to the wider liberation struggle - politics, and constitution-building. Extensive new chapters explore his contribution to the National Planning Commission, the effects of the Marikana massacre on his political prospects, and the real story behind his rise to the deputy presidency of the country in 2014. They set out the constraints Ramaphosa faced as Jacob Zuma's deputy, and explain how he ultimately triumphed in the election of the ANC's new president in 2017. The book concludes with an analysis of the challenges Ramaphosa faces as the country's fifth post-apartheid president. Based on numerous personal conversations with Ramaphosa over the past decade, and on rich interviews with many of the subject's friends and contemporaries,this new biography offers a frank appraisal of one of South Africa's most enigmatic political figures. ANTHONY BUTLER is Professor of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has been a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and a past Director of the Policy and Administration programme at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Chair in Political Studies at the University of the Witswatersrand. Exclusive sales rightsin the UK, Europe and North America, non-exclusive elsewhere (not for sale in South Africa - Jacana)

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Author:   Anthony Butler
Publisher:   James Currey
Imprint:   James Currey
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781847012296


ISBN 10:   1847012299
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   17 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface PART ONE: FORMATIVE YEARS No place to rest High school Turfloop Detention June '76 Behind enemy lines PART TWO: BUILDING UNION POWER Black unions Small beginnngs The great negotiator Entrenching union power August 1987 PART THREE: APARTHEID'S DOMESTIC ENDGAME Domestic opposition Becoming ANC By Mandela's side ANC secretary-general PART FOUR: NEGOTIATING THE TRANSITION BC: Negotiations, 1984 to 1991 Return of the great negotiator Triumph and disappointment PART FIVE: TREADING WATER Chairman Cyril Statesman, philanthropist and farmer PART SIX: NO LONGER BUSINESS AS USUAL Planning the future Marikana Mangaung and after Back to Marikana Being Zuma's Deputy The billion rand election A visionary pragmatist in the Union Buildings?

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From reviews of the first edition: Fluent and deeply informed. [...] A fine biography. LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN A very good biography. NEW YORK TIMES


OF FIRST EDITION: Fluent and deeply informed. [...] A fine biography. LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN 'a very good biography' NEW YORK TIMES


From reviews of the first edition: Fluent and deeply informed. [...] A fine biography. LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN A very good biography. NEW YORK TIMES


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