As the new United States administration targets South Africa on policy and the European Union on tariffs it has triggered an opposite reaction – bringing President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria closer to President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on a host of diplomatic and security issues...
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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on 13 March that the mission would be phased out as diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis intensified...
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Grant projects that were previously funded and in planning or implementation phases have been cancelled Cyril Ramaphosa's government confirmed on 6 March...
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that ministers are ‘looking at various interventions to address the immediate needs and ensure the continuity of essential services'...
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Vol 66 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The outcome of the cabinet meeting might have been different had President Cyril Ramaphosa been chairing it...
In December President Cyril Ramaphosa set out his plans to launch a cost-of-capital commission to address the major disparities on debt faced by developing countries alongside a broader review of the G20's scarcely used Common Framework on debt (AC Vol 65 No 10 No Bretton Woods moment)...
The government's determination to hit its 3% GDP growth target and to push its policy agenda as it chairs the G20 this year dominated President Cyril Ramaphosa's speech at opening of Parliament on 6 February...
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EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas will hold talks with President Cyril Ramaphosa and ministers on 19 February ahead of a G20 foreign ministers meeting the next day and an EU-South Africa summit in March (AC Vol 66 No 4 Ramaphosa's G20 and growth plans sideline Trump threats over funding)...
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Unlike Rwanda's thin-skinned president South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is rarely provoked by insults...
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The bill which was signed into law just a week ago by President Cyril Ramaphosa permits expropriation without compensation only when it is ‘just and equitable and in the public interest ' such as in cases where land is not being used or developed...
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