Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

It is essentially a two-horse race between Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma the President's former wife and outgoing African Union Commission Chairperson and Cyril Ramaphosa Deputy President of both ANC and country a billionaire businessman and former miners' union boss...

Almost three years of intense regional talks with South Africa's Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) facilitator have failed to return the army to barracks...

Taking aimA key part of Zuma's public relations campaign Africa Confidential understands is to portray his rival Deputy President and businessman Cyril Ramaphosa and others as being funded by white business...

EFF strategists believe that since the ANC's Tripartite Alliance with the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions is fracturing the ANC whether under Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma or current Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will perform poorly in the 2019 elections poorly enough for the EFF to govern in coalition with the DA and other opposition parties in a grand anti-ANC alliance...

They back Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to take over from Zuma...

He won the support of the National Working Committee before sacking one-third of his cabinet and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced to apologise after criticising the reshuffle in public...

Cyril Ramaphosa and ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe took the unprecedented step of publicly opposing the removal of Gordhan and Jonas...

The split between KZN's anti- and pro-Zuma factions has given strategists for Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa as well as other potential rivals real hope of breaking the backbone of Zuma's support and leaving him unable to control the Conference...

Dlamini-Zuma remains her ex-husband's most probable successor because her regional constituency is more solid than that of her rival Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa...

The faction supporting Cyril Ramaphosa helped to defeat the motion and is believed to be in effective control of the ANC's parliamentary caucus...

The prospect of Molefe becoming Finance Minister or even Deputy has brought the governing party almost to the point of open warfare and could even lead to a split led by the reformist Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's main rival for the succession...