DISPATCHES
Vol 62 No 3 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Only 50 people instead of the usual 1 200 will attend the parliamentary session when President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his state of the nation address in parliament next Thursday...
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Vol 62 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
In comes Félix Tshisekedi President of Congo-Kinshasa to replace South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa as chair of the AU...
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While the outgoing chair of the African Union South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was able to make a triumphant announcement on 13 January that the AU had 'secured' 230 million doses of vaccine the small print of the arrangement is complicated delivery is distant and it falls well short of what is required (see Box The high price of the shots)...
Vol 62 No 2 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The NEC refusal even to discuss the issue is regarded as a victory over President Cyril Ramaphosa and his allies by Magashule's supporters in the NEC who include: Zuma former Minister of Environmental Affairs Nomvula Mokonyane former Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini former North West premier Supra Mahumapelo and former ANC Secretary General in the Western Cape Tony Yengeni...
Vol 62 No 2 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Kabila allies have approached South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to pressure Tshisekedi to 'honour' the 2018 deal...
DISPATCHES
President Cyril Ramaphosa's pandemic team is talking to AstraZeneca Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson (which has been carrying out tests in South Africa) about regulatory criteria pricing and supplies...
The struggle between President Cyril Ramaphosa and his predecessor Jacob Zuma will play out in the courts where the ex-president faces multiple charges of grand corruption but will try to widen it into a political fight if he can get his supporters on the streets in big enough numbers...
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Vol 62 No 1 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The fortunes of the ruling African National Congress and Cyril Ramaphosa's own survival as party and South African president are dependent on the outcome of municipal elections scheduled for mid-year and on a sustained turnaround in the economy after a third-quarter rebound that coincided with the easing of pandemic-related restrictions (AC Vol 61 No 11 Cyril's lockdown limits)...
Vol 61 No 25 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Cyril Ramaphosa has scored in the ongoing battle against the faction bent on unseating him with this week's decision by the African National Congress's Integrity Commission that party Secretary-General Ace Magashule must step down with immediate effect or be suspended (AC Vol 61 No 23 Ace arrest boosts Cyril)...
Rounding up the crooks South Africa's criminal justice system has unravelled massive corruption and looting of state funds since Cyril Ramaphosa efforts to curb graft after he was elected ANC President in December 2017 and President of the country in February 2018...
He thanked the Special Envoys of the AU Chair South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for the AU's concern and this demonstration of support to 'the principle of African solutions to African problems' but ignored any suggestion of a ceasefire...
The summit will almost certainly take place online – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa who currently chairs the AU has urged Michel not to insist on it being in-person – and with no decisions taken at the end of it...
Elsewhere momentum is being driven at member state level primarily by South Africa whose President Cyril Ramaphosa currently chairs the AU...