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Vol 66 No 24 |
- AFRICA
- FINANCE
His report commissioned by President Cyril Ramaphosa as part of South Africa's G20 presidency reflects African governments' frustrations over credit restructuring and borrowing costs that have pushed many towards debt distress (Dispatches 23/6/25 Stiglitz panel calls for debt relief as wealthy states block African UN plan)...
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Vol 66 No 23 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
In May President Cyril Ramaphosa's Government of National Unity proposed a 10-year LNG import agreement with the United States as part of a broader trade package aimed at securing lower tariffs and trade concessions...
The Lobito Corridor from Angola to Zambia's copperfields was the first example cited by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Global Gateway Forum in Brussels in October a two-day event attended by South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa and Rwanda's president Paul Kagame demonstrating that large-scale infrastructural investments attract interest...
Vol 66 No 22 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Business once supportive of President Cyril Ramaphosa has grown disillusioned with his failure to honour promises of zero tolerance for corruption and economic reform...
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Since a bilateral spring summit in South Africa the EU has promised new energy investment and the prospect of better trade terms to Cyril Ramaphosa's government (AC Vol 66 No 6 Targeted by Trump – Africa and Europe draw closer)...
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‘These investments should not replace one dependency with another ' said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during the two-day meeting in Brussels...
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President Cyril Ramaphosa faces crunch trade talks with United States President Donald Trump's administration next week with talks expected on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York that starts today...
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But months later when Cyril Ramaphosa was consolidating power as the ANC and national president he appointed Tau as the only deputy minister from outside parliament (AC Vol 62 No 16 Who runs Gauteng...
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Vol 66 No 18 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa has scrapped plans to hold a naval exercise with China and Russia in November in a bid to avoid diplomatic embarrassment as it would have coincided with a G20 summit hosted by President Cyril Ramaphosa...
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The most serious problem with South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief General Rudzani Maphwanya's visit to Iran from 12 to 14 August was that President Cyril Ramaphosa was neither informed nor involved in authorising it...
STRUGGLE VETERAN RAMAPHOSA ATTACKED BY ALL SIDES One of the last senior politicians from the struggle generation to lead South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa has just two years left in his 10-year double term as President of the African National Congress (ANC) and is grappling with a mountain of unresolved issues: how to fuel growth and investment in the country's ailing economy and to manage his succession...
