Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

President Cyril Ramaphosa has bowed to mounting business and popular pressure to ease the lockdown from 1 June but has warned that the worst of the pandemic is still to come...

After an initial period of broad public acceptance of the government's efforts to manage the pandemic and approval in particular for the measured approach taken by President Cyril Ramaphosa tempers are fraying...

They might explain a call by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa at an African Union teleconference on 28 April for Western states and the IFIs to lift sanctions against the Mnangagwa government...

The launch was addressed by heads of government including French President Emmanuel Macron German Chancellor Angela Merkel and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa...

Unlike South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa who has used the health crisis there to reassert his leadership position President Muhammadu Buhari has made just three broadcasts on the emergency in the past two months the latest was on 27 April when he announced a phased easing of the lockdown in Lagos Abuja and Ogun State...

President Cyril Ramaphosa's 500 billion rand (US$26bn) stimulus to sustain South Africa's already precarious economy during the Covid-19 lockdown has been welcomed by business and opposition leaders but not unanimously...

After several days of talks mediated by Jeff Radebe South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's special envoy after Thabane sent troops onto the streets of Maseru the ruling All Basotho Congress and opposition Democratic Congress struck a deal to form a government...

With South Africa in the third week of a lockdown that may only be lifted at the end of April and possibly not even then President Cyril Ramaphosa and Health Minister Zweli Mkhize have been riding a wave of approval with both praised for decisive leadership in handling the coronavirus outbreak (AC Vol 61 No 7 Cyril's double crisis)...

The country's deepening economic crisis has shifted the power balance in government to the reformists: a triumvirate of President Cyril Ramaphosa Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago...

Lockdown shuts down critics President Cyril Ramaphosa's fiercest critics have been brought onside as he engages with political parties business leaders unions church and traditional leaders to tackle the coronavirus crisis (AC Vol 61 No 6 Ramaphosa's next test)...

' In a WhatsApp video sent to the media another political enemy of the President's ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule said: 'The ANC welcomes the announcement by comrade President Cyril Ramaphosa for placing the country under national lockdown necessary measure...

Botswana's main concern is that President Cyril Ramaphosa keep his word that the coronavirus outbreak and the lockdown of South Africa will not disrupt the supply of goods across the border...