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South Africa's President takes on unions

To save his country's economy, Cyril Ramaphosa may need to take on the movement he helped create.

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Key Statistics

  • 27%South Africa's unemployment rate
  • 0.8%GDP growth last year

In 1987, an anti-apartheid firebrand named Cyril Ramaphosa led South Africa's biggest-ever mining strike. Some 300,000 miners – from a union Ramaphosa himself had founded – walked off the job, protesting pay and working conditions.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Davos, Switzerland in January. Simon Dawson

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