[20180215]IF10731_南非：当前事态发展与美国关系.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated February 15, 2018South Africa: Current Developments and U.S. RelationsOn February 14, 2018, South Africas second term president, Jacob Zuma, resignedafter defying an order by the executive committee of the governing African National Congress (ANC) that he do so, and in the face of a threatened no-confidence vote in parliament. The parliament then elected as national president Cyril Ramaphosa, then national vice president, whom the ANC had chosen to succeed Zuma as its party leader in late 2017, ahead of general elections in 2019. Zumas departure came after years of pressure on him to step down, spurred by chronic corruption scandals and weak economic growth under his tenure. It also capped an effort by Ramaphosa, in the face of an intra-ANC split between pro- and anti-Zuma wings, to immediately succeed Zuma. Country Background South Africa, which became a multiracial democracy in 1994, is influential in Africa, due to its size, resources, and investment and political engagement across the regionbut suffers from deep internal socioeconomic divisions. There has been progress toward racial equality since the first all-race election in 1994, whic