# The ANC’s 55th conference re-elects Ramaphosa as party president

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 19 December 2022 the ANC’s 55th National Conference re-elected [Ramaphosa](/people/cyril-ramaphosa) as party president against a Phala Phala challenge.

## Context

Phala Phala 2020 sat as parent weather. Neighbouring 2024 GNU is a child. He did not sit as every branch.

Phala Phala 2020 is a parent integrity file. 2024 election is a child.

The President of South Africa heads the national executive, appoints Cabinet, and assents to bills. He does not write an Eskom generation print, an NPA charging decision, a DA court challenge, or a US executive order by himself. Phala Phala cash in a sofa is not a completed criminal verdict unless a court so holds.

## Evidence and sources

ANC carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed certified party re-election under an open farm-cash file.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 19 December 2022 conference result, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later 2024 vote share from that Monday, or that Phala Phala was thereby closed.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He ran. Phala Phala procedure remained a neighbour.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The ANC’s 55th conference re-elects Ramaphosa as party president, not a later speech about The ANC’s 55th conference re-elects Ramaphosa as party president.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The ANC’s 55th conference re-elects Ramaphosa as party president on 2022-12-19 is not a licence to treat every later ANC communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The ANC’s 55th conference re-elects Ramaphosa as party president into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to ANC members voted. He ran. Phala Phala procedure remained a neighbour. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Cyril Ramaphosa: https://factrail.ai/people/cyril-ramaphosa

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-ramaphosa-re-elected-anc-leader-2022-12-19/
- https://www.anc1912.org.za/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/za-anc-2022