Three party leaders battle it out in SA 2019 election
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa goes to the polls on Wednesday with the leaders of the three main parties vying for votes in a race that could test the ruling ANC's long-held dominance.Cyril Ramaphosa, the leader of the ruling ANC party, finally came to power last year after a dramatic and varied career intertwined with the birth of modern South Africa.
He returned to politics to become Jacob Zuma's vice president in 2014, often drawing criticism for failing to speak out against corruption and government mismanagement. Born in Johannesburg's Soweto township, Ramaphosa took up activism while studying law in the 1970s, and spent 11 months in solitary confinement in 1974.Mmusi Maimane, 38, is the first black leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party.
But he has struggled to land punches on Ramaphosa or to convince many black middle-class voters that the DA is not still a "white" party.
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