Cyril Ramaphosa
President of South Africa since 2018; former trade unionist and businessman
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Cyril Ramaphosa, born in Soweto in 1952, founded the National Union of Mineworkers in 1982, led the ANC's negotiating team in the early 1990s, built a substantial business career and became President of South Africa in February 2018. He was re-elected in 2024 at the head of a Government of National Unity.
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