South African President Cyril Ramaphosa demanded reform of the World Trade Organization and the ‘recalibration of trade rules to enable industrialisation' while his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el Sisi aimed his fire at the failings of the multilateral financial institutions...
Neither will South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa who has been attending the BRICS (Brazil Russia India China and South Africa) summit in Kazan south-east Russia and is sending his deputy foreign minister in his place...
Kigali's aggressive security stance is accentuating the sour relations between Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa...
Vol 65 No 21 |
- AFRICAN UNION
Several months ago they had confidently predicted an endorsement for Odinga from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa...
Vol 65 No 18 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
Ahead of the FOCAC summit South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa and China's Xi Jinping held talks saying afterwards that they planned to expand cooperation in renewable energy energy storage and power transmission and distribution...
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Vol 65 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The African National Congress's (ANC) move to pin the blame for its worst results in three decades on ex-President Jacob Zuma risks whitewashing the failures of President Cyril Ramaphosa's government...
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Vol 65 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
When the United Democratic Movement's Bantu Holomisa and Economic Freedom Fighters' Julius Malema called a press conference on the morning of 14 June at the Cape Town Convention Centre a few hours before Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected as president the media hastily rushed to it not sure what to expect...
Vol 65 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
John Steenhuisen's centre-right Democratic Alliance made most of the compromises as his team negotiated over jobs and policies with President Cyril Ramaphosa and the African National Congress to keep the GNU on the road...
The top table in the Government of National Unity The mandate given to the Government of National Unity by President Cyril Ramaphosa is to promote ‘inclusive economic growth create jobs and eliminate poverty and inequality' (AC Vol 65 No 13 The centre is holding – for now)...
LEANER AND MEANER – BUT STILL THE ANC The formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU) has exposed the cracks in the African National Congress and intensified the power play ahead of the 2027 elective conference due in 2027 when Cyril Ramaphosa has to step down from the party presidency...
New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on 7 July and congratulated him on the GNU...
‘What Cyril Ramaphosa has done really matters to the world ' he added...
A weeks-long hiatus in fighting – likely related to South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa's meeting with President Paul Kagame on the margins of Rwanda's genocide commemorations – came to an end after the 3 May attack following which SAMIDRC resumed operations albeit with limited success...
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South Africa and other African states need to move away quickly from their high carbon emitting economic models President Cyril Ramaphosa told a climate change conference in Pretoria on 15 July...
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