Despite a growing lack of enthusiasm for his leadership, Jacob Zuma has been re-elected to lead the ruling African National Congress (anc), and by extension, to a likely second term as the country's president. At a congress held every five years, this time in Mangaung, formerly Bloemfontein, he got three-quarters of the 3,977 votes cast by the delegates. Kgalema Motlanthe, his deputy, came a distant second, outshone by Cyril Ramaphosa, one of South Africa's richest men, who was drafted in by the president to replace Mr Motlanthe as his number two. He may well become the country's deputy president in 2014 and, if the past is any guide, president of South Africa in 2019-or sooner, were Mr Zuma to falter.
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