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Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

Date of Birth: 17 November 1952
Place of Birth: Johannesburg


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Senegal's AfCON win boosts Africa's coaches

His business record as founder of African Rainbow Minerals and as brother-in-law to President Cyril Ramaphosa combined with his ownership of the Malelodi Sundowns make him a high-profile head of African football after years of dysfunction and opaque decision-making in CAF...


Bankers circle the presidency

Corporate powerBanker and corporate power in Nigeria has its parallels in South Africa where business titan Cyril Ramaphosa won the African National Congress leadership in 2017 taking over the national presidency from Jacob Zuma in 2018...


Balance of forces in ANC favours Cyril

When South African President Cyril Ramaphosa takes the podium on 10 February in Cape Town's City Hall – which will substitute for the colonial-era parliamentary buildings gutted by fire on 2 January – his state-of-the-nation address will be judged more harshly than ever (AC Vol 63 No 1 Outpouring of grief marks Archbishop Tutu's passing)...


Candidates and kingmakers break cover in succession drama

The row between President Cyril Ramaphosa and Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu over her criticism of the country's judges and constitution has opened the race for the top posts in the African National Congress at its elective conference scheduled for 16 December (AC Vol 63 No 2 Lindiwe throws a designer hat in the ring)...


Lindiwe throws a designer hat in the ring

A startling attack on the constitution and the judiciary by a senior minister in President Cyril Ramaphosa's cabinet is the opening shot in a bid to replace the reformist leader with a populist at the ruling party's elective conference in December...

Many of those in the RET camp have fallen foul of President Cyril Ramaphosa's anti-corruption campaign and are facing fraud and money-laundering charges in upcoming trials or have been named in the commission report...


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South Africa pushes on vaccine patents and donates shots to the region

A pledge by South Africa to give away two million doses of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine to low-income countries in the region adds to the substance of President Cyril Ramaphosa's complaints about rich countries hoarding vaccines and imposing African travel bans (AC Dispatches 14/12/21 Continent ramps up vaccine production as G20 countries fail to join international distribution plan)...

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