Vol 63 No 18 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Even ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa cannot be certain of victory in the party and that he will be its choice as presidential contender in the next election...
Her detractors say she is too young at 46 and some see the former banker as too close to Cyril Ramaphosa...
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Several leaders including South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa flew to Luanda for the funeral...
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Vol 63 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
In his closing address to the African National Congress's 6th policy conference in Johannesburg on 31 July President Cyril Ramaphosa said the gathering was overwhelmingly in favour of retaining the 'step-aside' rule which requires ANC members charged with corruption to step back from public office until they have been cleared...
Vol 63 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
It was a humiliation for President Cyril Ramaphosa which damaged his chances of winning a second term as president...
While the pro-Cyril Ramaphosa ‘Ankole' faction fear the prospect of losing the province and possibly the nation the pro-Zuma ‘Taliban' seem to view it with greater equanimity so long as it means their dominance of the party continues ...
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Vol 63 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
It started about as badly as it could for President Cyril Ramaphosa with the news that the Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane was investigating whether he had breached the Executive Ethics Code in his handling of a break-in at his farm in which some US$4 million was reported to have been stolen...
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Vol 63 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Cyril Ramaphosa vigorously defended his probity in a speech to the South African Communist Party (SACP) on 15 July insisting he would not be railroaded or intimidated while about 150 demonstrators supporting the Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) marched on its Luthuli House headquarters to demand his suspension from office...
Vol 63 No 14 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's epic state capture report is proving disastrous for President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ruling African National Congress (ANC)...
Vol 63 No 14 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Although President Cyril Ramaphosa has got his favoured candidate elected as leader of the African National Congress in Gauteng the country's richest province the party remains chronically split in the region and could lose more support to radicals of the right and left in the 2024 elections...
Provincial deputy chair and cabinet member for education Panyaza Lesufi a staunch supporter of President Cyril Ramaphosa narrowly beat Lebogang Maile who has the local human settlements portfolio for the top party job with 575 delegate votes to 543...
The challenges facing President Cyril Ramaphosa in reforming the ruling party and confronting corruption are strongest here and resound most with voters...
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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa also attended the summit urging the G7 countries along with World Trade Organization director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to speed up negotiations over patents for vaccines and therapeutics needed to address public health emergencies...
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Vol 63 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Once a key associate of President Jacob Zuma in the state security and intelligence apparatus Arthur Fraser has leapt onto the front pages with his claims about the burglary at President Cyril Ramaphosa's farm in 2020...