South African and African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa has proposed to the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) that it consider going into opposition if it fails to secure a majority in the elections in May instead of forming coalitions political sources told Africa Confidential...

The ANC has also been organising gala dinners at which business leaders can pay up to R5m to share a table with President Cyril Ramaphosa...

MBZ is a leading backer of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' the leader of the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan's civil war who was warmly welcomed by President Cyril Ramaphosa along with the Presidents of Kenya Uganda and Rwanda in January...

This latest bout of shuttle diplomacy follows a fractious meeting convened by Lourenço on 16 February in Addis Ababa ahead of the African Union summit which brought together Tshisekedi Rwanda's Paul Kagame Kenya's William Ruto and South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa...

Fresh tensions have blown up within the ruling party after Deputy President Paul Mashatile appeared to pre-empt President Cyril Ramaphosa on the timing of the elections...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to announce the election date during the opening of parliament on 8 February...

And then on to South Africa for a slightly less fulsome welcome from President Cyril Ramaphosa...

President Cyril Ramaphosa said the ICJ ruling was a vindication of South Africa's unprecedented action in taking Israel to the World Court...

We hear that President Cyril Ramaphosa wants to bring forward the national and provincial elections to capitalise on the popularity of the country's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (AC Vol 65 No 2 Genocide case tests the UN system)...

'I have never felt as proud as I felt today when our legal team was arguing the Palestinian case in the Hague ' President Cyril Ramaphosa told the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) on the day of the hearing...