FILE PHOTO: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during the 55th National Conference of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa December 16, 2022. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected leader of the governing African National Congress (ANC) at a party leadership contest, an ANC official said on Monday.
Ramaphosa had been widely tipped to secure re-election for a second five-year term as ANC leader at the five-day gathering being held in the country's biggest city Johannesburg.
He secured the most nominations from rank-and-file ANC members and is widely viewed as the country's most popular politician.
But his re-election campaign was dogged by the "Farmgate" scandal that broke in June involving large sums of foreign currency found hidden at his private game farm.
Ramaphosa has denied wrongdoing and not been charged with any crimes over the scandal, but it has raised questions about how he acquired the money and whether he declared it.
(Reporting by Kopano Gumbi, Alexander Winning and Tim Cocks; Additional reporting by Nqobile Dludla and Wendell Roelf; Editing by James Macharia Chege)
