Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

Knowing what was in store he hastily told Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa that he was replacing him at the Nairobi meeting of Japan's Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) before heading to Hangzhou in China for the Group of 20 summit...

A calm undemonstrative man his manner is conciliatory which is attractive to those who are unhappy with the prospect of either Cyril Ramaphosa who has impressed less as time goes on or Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma whom they see as President Jacob Zuma's political heir leading the country...

ANC leaders including Cyril Ramaphosa have been deployed across the country but the President's ex-wife has focussed her attention solely on KZN...

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa ANC Treasurer Zweli Mkhize and Presidency Minister Jeff Radebe while maintaining a lower profile clearly support Gordhan...

These are Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa Secretary General Gwede Mantashe Treasurer General Zweli Mkhize Chairperson Baleka Mbete and Deputy Secretary General Jessie Duarte...

Zuma's former wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma the main rival of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa in the succession stakes expressed shock that the President could be addressed in such a way...

The camp supporting Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has not lost hope especially if it can lure key ANC KwaZulu-Natal leaders...

After the ANC and business barons met on 13 December in a meeting coordinated by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe it took their envoys Zwele Mkhize and Presidency Minister Jeff Radebe less than an hour to persuade Zuma to back off and again appoint Pravin Gordhan as Finance Minister...

24 November: Cosatu gives tacit backing to Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa as presidential candidate...

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa's prospects of succeeding President Jacob Zuma in 2019 – in steep decline recently – changed for the better last week with his endorsement by the Confederation of South African Trade Unions at its elective conference at Midrand...

Zikalala's victory is a blow to Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa's presidential ambitions even though the ANC's recent National General Council meetings proved lukewarm to the prospect of a Dlamini-Zuma presidency...

As South Africa's Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and the Chairwoman of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma sang and danced on the podium alongside Zuma on 18 October it was possible for a moment to forget the eager manoeuvring to succeed him in 2017 when he is due to step down as ANC leader...