Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

The usual suspects: ANC ex-Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa 50 Gauteng ex-Premier Tokyo Sexwale 49 and Mpumalanga ex-Premier Mathews Phosa were all named by Tshwete as suspects in an anti-Mbeki plot: he later apologised to them when police found the suspicions groundless...

Ramano who is also chairman of Johnnic Publishing is in fact a minor member of the Venda royal family Cyril Ramaphosa's ethnic group...

) and partly to Johnnic chaired by former ANC Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa...

Cyril Ramaphosa former General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers chief negotiator with the apartheid regime former Secretary General of the ANC ex-President Nelson Mandela's (unsuccessful) choice as his successor and now a rich businessman; 2...

A far more favoured contender is Cyril Ramaphosa who was named by Nelson Mandela as his preferred successor but lost out to Mbeki...

Expect signs of political revival for Cyril Ramaphosa...

This sounds bad for those benefitting from black economic empowerment but good for Mbeki since that process has enriched his old arch-rival Cyril Ramaphosa - who has now been tempted away to monitor Republican arms caches in Ireland as part of the Northern Ireland peace process...

For example former mineworkers' leader Cyril Ramaphosa is now Chairman of Johnnic (which owns the respected Times Media group) and has amassed a fortune estimated at US$25 million...

NAIL's directors then included former ANC Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa and Nthato Motlana once Nelson Mandela's doctor...