Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

Motlanthe is 59 a year or two older than the ANC’s other possibles for president Cyril Ramaphosa Tokyo Sexwale and Mathews Phosa...

ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe cautions against the move and former ANC General Secretary Cyril Ramaphosa is saying nothing publicly...

Of these some argue that if offered immunity Zuma should remain President of the ANC - but not its presidential candidate who should be one of the party's four Young Turks: ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa former ANC general secretary Cyril Ramaphosa or former Gauteng Premier Tokyo Sexwale...

Before the December conference she tried to arrange the election of a younger candidate -Motlanthe Cyril Ramaphosa Mathews Phosa or Tokyo Sexwale - to bring new vigour to the party...

Other black intellectuals advocate quashing Zuma's trial and offering the presidency not to Zuma but to either Kgalema Motlanthe Mathews Phosa Cyril Ramaphosa or Tokoy Sexwale...

His anti-corruption stance improves his chances in the secondary battle to take over as ANC leader if Zuma is blocked by his mountain of legal obstacles; his rivals are ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe former ANC General Secretary Cyril Ramaphosa and Sexwale...

Less diplomatic was Kibaki's treatment of South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa: his offer of mediation was refused by the government which claimed he had business interests with Odinga...

Perhaps with the combined mediation skills of Annan Ban Ki-moon and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa in Nairobi this week both sides might be cajoled into more substantive talks unless the violence grows yet more awful...

Yet Motlanthe faces three competitors within the party ­ new ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa business tycoon Tokyo Sexwale and former ANC Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa...

The leading contenders are Mathews Phosa Cyril Ramaphosa and Tokyo Sexwale all of whom would use their elections to the ANC National Executive as a base from which to launch presidential campaigns...