Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

The ousting of former African National Congress Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa as a deputy chairperson of NAIL (New Africa Investments Limited) on 22 February raises questions about his business and political future...

Two were ‘outsiders' - Cyril Ramaphosa now profitably in business after losing out to Mbeki and Pallo Jordan sacked from the cabinet then reinstated as Environment Minister...

Senior figures missing from the NWC include Cyril Ramaphosa Pallo Jordan Blade Nzimande Mac Maharaj and Saki Macozoma a former spokesman for Mandela...

This was to be a black-led operating company not just a holding company like Cyril Ramaphosa's Johnnic...

The black empowerment movement has accelerated this turning Cosatu's charismatic former Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa and other union leaders into keen participants in capitalist structures...

Johnnic's new Chairman is Cyril Ramaphosa formerly Secretary General of the National Union of Mineworkers and a contender for the presidency...

HCI's share price has trebled since its creation making it worth about the same as Donald Ncube's Real Africa Investments (RAIL) and New Africa Investments (NAIL) the empire of Motlana Cyril Ramaphosa and Dikgang Moseneke...

* Anglo American Corporation has sold off its English-language papers mostly to Irish tycoon Tony O'Reilly and the rest to a consortium led by Cyril Ramaphosa who was a strong candidate to lead the ANC and might be again; * The main Afrikaans news groups Nasionale Pers and Perskor are forming an alliance and joint ventures with black partners; * The South African Broadcasting Corporation is quarrelling with the government whose control has been diluted by the creation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority and of some 80 community based radio stations...

A key component of Mbeki' s Africanism is to bring the unions into the market economy by getting them involved in deals such as New Africa Investments Limited' s takeover of Anglo American' s Johnnic which was brokered by ANC Secretary General (and former General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers) Cyril Ramaphosa...

His one serious rival Cyril Ramaphosa is now ensconced in the business world as chief executive of Nthato Motlana's New Africa Investments Limited...

The Anglo-American Corporation announced a deal with a consortium of black investors to dispose of its stake in Johnnic headed by the ANC's Cyril Ramaphosa (AC Vol 37 No 9) which has holdings in major businesses from media and brewing to car manufacture...