South African president fights for political life
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, engaged in the biggest battle of his political life, has survived a planned political coup by asking the ANC’s integrity committee to investigate accounts of a campaign that financed his campaign for the presidency of the ANC. Sources in the ANC, a party that has been divided into two factions, have revealed that Ramaphosa volunteered to submit himself and the CR17 campaign for a probe into, among others, the R400-million received in donations. Ramaphosa is said to have told the NEC meeting, in his presidential address, that he had also asked the…