Disputes Delay Vote on African National Congress Leader<br />Ms. Mbete said that in discussing with him the challenges facing the party<br />and the country, "We have agreed a whole lot more." She said there was "never an opportunity" to hold similar discussions with Ms. Dlamini-Zuma.<br />17, 2017<br />JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s ruling party moved slowly on Sunday to elect a leader to replace the<br />scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma, as disputes over delegates’ credentials delayed the vote.<br />The two front-runners — Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Mr. Zuma’s ex-wife — have been locked in a tight race, each representing starkly different visions for the party<br />that has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994.<br />While Ms. Dlamini-Zuma has emphasized a populist message focusing on redistributing the country’s wealth from white to black residents, Mr. Ramaphosa,<br />who was also one of the country’s richest businessmen, has focused on growing the economy and making it more attractive to investors.<br />The party’s national chairwoman, Baleka Mbete, who had also been running for party leader, announced that she would endorse Mr. Ramaphosa.<br />Officials with the party, the African National Congress, said a new leader would emerge on Monday morning at the earliest.
