vowed to improve the prospects for the country's black majority she's up against deputy president cyril rama pozahe's a business friendly trade unionist and one of the wealthiest people on the continent the winner will likely be south africa's next president. for more on this we're joined by journalist philip yvette from the mail and guardian philip thanks for taking the time the race between the two candidates is too close to call there are new developments though this hour that could make it even closer can you tell us about that. well in the next hour of this conference we find. five hours later the reason for that delay some last minute legal action came to me yesterday that has now seen the exclusion of what reach out to be a two point five percent of the voting delegates at this conference keep in mind specter space we could tell the margin between the two even candidates five percent to twenty so things are very close indeed now once the conference gets under way we'll get a sense of the kind of arguments that might emerge in terms of which francia still be excluded and the credentials of