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Zuma re-elected as ANC leader

Jacob Zuma has been re-elected as leader of South Africa's governing African National Congress. He received an overwhelming majority of votes cast by some 4,000 delegates at the party's Mangaung conference.

He had been favourite to secure the leadership after he was challenged for the top job by his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe. Mr Motlanthe has been replaced by anti-apartheid era hero Cyril Ramaphosa as deputy president.

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