This fully revised and extended edition charts Ramaphosa’s early life and education, and his career in trade unionism, politics and constitution-building.Extensive new chapters explore his contribution to the National Planning Commission, the effects of the Marikana massacre on his political prospects and the real story behind his rise to the deputy presidency of the country in 2014. They set out the constraints Ramaphosa faced as Jacob Zuma’s deputy, and explain how heultimately triumphed in the election of the ANC’s new president in2017.The book concludes with an analysis of the challenges Ramaphosa faces as the country’s fifth post-apartheid president. This commanding biography tells the full story of this enigmatic leader’s life and political career for the first time. It is based on numerous personal conversations with Ramaphosa over the past decade, and on rich interviews with many of the subject’s friends and contemporaries.