10 Things You Didn’t Know About Cyril Ramaphosa - President of South Africa

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Cyril Ramaphosa
Hello Displorers, welcome back to another exciting video presented to you by Displore and thanks for watching, In this video we shall be shining the light on one of the most prominent politicians in Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa. Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is a South African politician currently srcing as the fifth President of South Africa since febuary 2018. Previously an anti-apartheid activist, trade union leader and businessman, Ramaphosa served as the Deputy President of South Africa from 2014 to 2018. He was later elected President of the African National Congress at the ANC National Conference in December 2017. Ramaphosa was born in Soweto, Johannesburg, on 17 November 1952, to Venda parents. He is the second of the three children to Erdmuth and retired policeman Samuel Ramaphosa. He attended Tshilidzi Primary School and Sekano Ntoane High School in Soweto. In 1971, he matriculated from Mphaphuli High School in Sibasa Venda, where he was elected head of the Student Christian Movement. He subsequently registered to study law at the University of the North (Turfloop) in Limpopo Province in 1972.
While at university, Ramaphosa became involved in student politics and joined the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the Black People's Convention (BPC). This resulted in him being detained in solitary confinement for eleven months in 1974 under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act, 1967, for organising pro-Frelimo rallies. In 1976 he was detained again, following the unrest in Soweto, and held for six months at John Vorster Square under the Terrorism Act. After his release, he became a law clerk for a Johannesburg firm of attorneys and continued with his legal studies through correspondence with the University of South Africa (UNISA), where he obtained his B. Proc. Degree in 1981
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Being the president of south Africa has left Cyril Ramaphosa more or less a public figure with most his life out there for all to scrutinize and analyze, so lets take a closer look into the life of this African leader with the 10 things you didn’t know about Cyril Ramaphosa.
1. He Holds several Honorary Doctorates, Awards and International Recognitions
Among others, Ramaphosa has received honorary doctorates from the University of Natal, the University of Port Elizabeth, the University of Cape Town, the University of the North, the National University of Lesotho, National University of Ireland Galway the University of Massachusetts Boston and the University of Pennsylvania. Ramaphosa received the Olof Palme prize in Stockholm in October 1987.In 2004, he was voted 34th in the Top 100 Great South Africans. Ramaphosa was included in the 2007 Time 100, an annual list of 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world. Ramaphosa has also been internationally praised for his response to the Coronavirus pandemic in South Africa with the BBC commenting that, in this regard, "Ramaphosa has emerged as a formidable leader composed, compassionate, but seized by the urgency of the situation.
2. Cyril Ramaphosa is a Passionate Farmer
He loves fishing and he’s quite good at it, so good that he even teaches other very prominent and influncial people in south Africa how to fish one of which include Evita Bezuidenhout also known as Pieter-Dirk Uys a South African socialite, performer, author, satirist and self-proclaimed political activist. Besides fishing he is very passionate about Ankole cattle breeding. During a visit to Uganda in 2004, Ramaphosa became interested in the Ankole cattle breeding. Because of inadequate disease control measures in Uganda, the South African government denied him permission to import any of the breed. Instead, Ramaphosa purchased 43 cows from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and shipped them to Kenya. There the cows were artificially inseminated, the embryos removed and shipped to South Africa, were transferred to cows and then quarantined for two months. As of August 2017 Ramaphosa, had 100 Ankole breeding cows at his Ntaba Nyoni farm in Mpumalanga. In 2017 Ramaphosa co-wrote a book on the breed, Cattle of the Ages, Stories, and Portraits of the Ankole Cattle of Southern Africa.As an Ankole cattle breeder, he sold one of his bulls at auction for 640,000 rand
3. Cyril Ramaphosa is One of the Richest presidents in Africa
Since becoming the president of one of the most developed countries in Africa, Ramaphosa has constantly appeared on the list of the Top 10 Richest presidents in Africa. He is well known as a businessman, and his estimated net worth is over $450 million even though some sources claim he is