After four days of deliberations on 29 January the ruling African National Congress agreed in principle to declare a national disaster in response to rolling power cuts which President Cyril Ramaphosa said were 'crippling the economy' and promoting crime...

The highest profile case which was launched by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) the country's biggest union and three opposition parties (the United Democratic Movement Action SA and the Inkatha Freedom Party) to sue President Cyril Ramaphosa together with his energy and public enterprises minister and the top management at the Eskom power utility for the failure to end the 15-year crisis (AC Vol 63 No 20 New coalition aims to supplant the ANC)...

Russian officials are confident that South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa will attend President Vladimir Putin's Russia-Africa summit due to be held in late July in St Petersburg...

He took over from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (AC Vol 63 No 19 Mswati sidesteps reform)...

AU chairman Macky Sall and South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa criticised the US's bill on 'Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa' currently before the Senate having been passed by the House of Representatives...

Those inform in part President Cyril Ramaphosa's neutrality on Moscow's war in Ukraine much to Washington's frustration...

The coming year is likely to see further loosening of President Cyril Ramaphosa's grip on his divided ruling party and reduce his ability to progress economic reforms...

Cyril Ramaphosa will be encouraged by his survival on 13 December of a parliamentary vote on the scathing Section 89 panel report into the Phala Phala farm scandal...

Until the afternoon of 30 November President Cyril Ramaphosa had all but ensured a second five-year term as African National Congress leader and as presidential candidate in the 2024 elections after the ruling party's branches gave him more than twice the votes of his nearest rival...

Race for the top six Beyond the presidency and deputy presidency where Cyril Ramaphosa and Paul Mashatile had sewn up the nominations before the parliamentary panel's bombshell report on the Phala Phala affair on 30 November the other four top posts in the African National Congress hierarchy are set to be fiercely contested: secretary-general deputy secretary-general chairperson and treasurer-general (AC Vol 63 No 22 Ramaphosa names his party allies)...