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Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

Date of Birth: 17 November 1952
Place of Birth: Johannesburg


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Who runs the Western Cape?

He has fairly cordial relations with President Cyril Ramaphosa despite occasional sharp differences of opinion particularly over the rules for Covid-19-related lockdowns...

Cyril Ramaphosa's election has given the ANC a boost in the Western Cape and thanks to favourable by-elections it controls nine municipalities in the province...


Ill fares the ANC

President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned the African National Congress that a judicial commission headed by Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo – which enjoys the support of the President and the ANC – will portray the ANC government as 'corrupt and incompetent' in a long-awaited report...


Presidents trade more blows

Political butterflyThe affair came just after a court dismissed the so-called 'Butterfly' case in which the government tried to prosecute Welheminah Maswabi aka 'Butterfly' a former intelligence agent in a case that appeared to implicate South African billionaire Brigitte Motsepe-Radebe President Cyril Ramaphosa's sister-in-law in money-laundering (AC Vol 61 No 17 Bridgette's border war escalates)...


Glencore signals new virtue

He alleged that Glencore had used its relationship with now-President Cyril Ramaphosa to get its way in disputes over coal prices and penalties imposed for delivering low quality coal...


In need of a spark

It is where President Cyril Ramaphosa has recently made his boldest interventions yet in the hope of preventing another round of disastrous power cuts...


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Ramaphosa reins in the spooks and picks new finance chief

Two weeks after a failed insurrection cost 337 lives and inflicted over US$4 billion in damage to the already stuttering economy President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on 5 August that he has dismantled the State Security Agency (SSA) which was set up by his predecessor Jacob Zuma...

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After the insurrection

President Cyril Ramaphosa and his circle are dismayed that Zuma supporters among the securocrats were able to covertly organise and provoke revenge actions for his arrest which led to the loss of at least 337 lives and caused more than $4 billion worth of damage (AC Vol 62 No 15 Anatomy of a failed insurrection)...


Who runs Gauteng?

Gauteng premier David Makhura is also the ANC provincial chairperson and is generally counted an ally of President Cyril Ramaphosa (AC Vol 61 No 16 In virus veritas)...

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Israel's seat at the African Union

Israel may be less welcome by some delegations at AU summits following the revelations that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and Morocco's King Mohammed VI as well as French President Emmanuel Macron were on the target list of Israeli firm NSO's Pegasus spyware...

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