Political butterflyThe affair came just after a court dismissed the so-called 'Butterfly' case in which the government tried to prosecute Welheminah Maswabi aka 'Butterfly' a former intelligence agent in a case that appeared to implicate South African billionaire Brigitte Motsepe-Radebe President Cyril Ramaphosa's sister-in-law in money-laundering (AC Vol 61 No 17 Bridgette's border war escalates)...

He alleged that Glencore had used its relationship with now-President Cyril Ramaphosa to get its way in disputes over coal prices and penalties imposed for delivering low quality coal...

It is where President Cyril Ramaphosa has recently made his boldest interventions yet in the hope of preventing another round of disastrous power cuts...

President Cyril Ramaphosa and his circle are dismayed that Zuma supporters among the securocrats were able to covertly organise and provoke revenge actions for his arrest which led to the loss of at least 337 lives and caused more than $4 billion worth of damage (AC Vol 62 No 15 Anatomy of a failed insurrection)...

Gauteng premier David Makhura is also the ANC provincial chairperson and is generally counted an ally of President Cyril Ramaphosa (AC Vol 61 No 16 In virus veritas)...

The main split is between supporters of ex-President Zuma and ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule on one side and those of President Cyril Ramaphosa on the other...

The government of President Cyril Ramaphosa and his intelligence chiefs insist that the rioting was a planned insurrection and a direct attack on the country's constitutional democracy...