South African President Cyril Ramaphosa made his name in some of the toughest, highest-profile political negotiations his country has ever faced. Ramaphosa was the African National Congress party’s chief negotiator during the talks in the early 1990s that ended the apartheid system of white minority rule that had forced racial segregation on South Africans for nearly a half-century. (AP Video: by Alfonso Nqunjana)
Ramaphosa is renowned in his home country as a calm, measured politician - AP explains
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa made his name in some of the toughest, highest-profile political negotiations his country has ever faced. Ramaphosa was the African National Congress party’s chief negotiator during the talks in the early 1990s that ended the apartheid system of white minority rule that had forced racial segregation on South Africans for nearly a half-century. (AP Video: by Alfonso Nqunjana)