Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

After the latest round of proxy battles President Cyril Ramaphosa is marginally ahead of his predecessor Jacob Zuma but his supporters warn that his opponents still control too many levers in the African National Congress...

The increasingly vicious war between opposing ANC factions has reached new heights after Zuma testified at the commission and Zuma-appointed Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane  ruled that Presiden Cyril Ramaphosa deliberately misled Parliament about contributions to his 2017 election campaign funds and engaged in money laundering (AC Vol 60 No 12 A tale of two ANCs)...

Development in the Sahel will be a major theme of the G7 summit in Biarritz on 24-26 August to which Macron has invited Burkina's President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré as current chair of the G5 and other African presidents: Senegal's Macky Sall Rwanda's Paul Kagame South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa the current African Union chair Abdel Fattah el Sisi and the AU commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat...

Opponents of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the ruling African National Congress have opened a new front in the ruthless campaign to remove him from office by 2021 or at least ensure that he does not serve a second five-year term...

President Cyril Ramaphosa's supporters and the opposition Democratic Alliance are urging him to take public statements on the economy away from ANC headquarters into the Presidency...

On the eve of the expected announcement of his drastically trimmed and revamped cabinet on 27 May a power struggle erupted between President Cyril Ramaphosa and his deputy in the last administration David Mabuza...

The issue was set to 'top the agenda' of talks between the US government delegation attending President Cyril Ramaphosa's inauguration last week according to a report by Portugal's LUSA news agency...

President Cyril Ramaphosa's mandate at the polls amid waning support for the ruling African National Congress and rapidly growing support for the populist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leaves him in a precarious situation to deliver his promised 'new dawn'...

' The Zuma group demands its place at the table Factional fighting between the Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa camps within the African National Congress – undiminished by the election results – is set to enter a new phase as the ruling party distributes the political and administrative appointments in its gift...

Hopes persist that in South Africa the continent's second-largest economy economic reforms could accelerate following the scheduled May elections if as expected President Cyril Ramaphosa secures his first full term...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is running almost a solitary national campaign for the African National Congress in the 8 May elections while his opponents in the party led by former President Jacob Zuma prefer to plough their efforts into winning their home provinces (AC Vol 60 No 7 The real post-election fight)...

Zuma favourites win list tussle In the lead-up to election day on 8 May the Cyril Ramaphosa and Jacob Zuma factions of the African National Congress fought to get as many of their members as possible high up the party's list...