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[RonAlton]

ANC Forces Mbeki to Quit

South Africa faces a power vacuum, after the ruling African National Congress forced President Thabo Mbeki to resign and his deputy said she would follow suit.

ANC leader Jacob Zuma is president-in-waiting, with the ANC having nominated him to succeed Mbeki. He can't take up the post until elections, due next year, are held because he isn't a lawmaker. A caretaker president is set to be appointed by parliament this week, with Baleka Mbete, the speaker of legislature and ANC chairwoman, the frontrunner for the post.

Source http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJPSVTzUGU3w&refer=home
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Ron Alton

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Mbeki, 66, succeeded Nelson Mandela in 1999 to become the nation's second black president after the end of Apartheid in 1994. He has overseen the country's longest period of economic growth. His decisions to back the sale of state companies and eliminate the budget deficit alienated the ANC's traditional labor union and communist allies.
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Ron Alton

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ANC leader Jacob Zuma is president-in-waiting, with the ANC having nominated him to succeed Mbeki.

Zuma, 66, ousted Mbeki as party leader in December, with the support of South Africa's biggest labor unions and the Communist Party, which believe he will back their demands for increased spending on social programs.
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Ron Alton