Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

One figure does enjoy the private support of many in the ANC hierarchy: Cyril Ramaphosa...

Another contender Defence Minister and ANC Chairman Mosioua 'Terror' Lekota will probably wait for 2009 to run; so will Mbeki's old rival Cyril Ramaphosa now a rich businessman who did well in the vote for the National Executive Committee...

Last year's potential challengers Mathews Phosa Tokyo Sexwale and Cyril Ramaphosa were besmirched by farcical accusations of conspiracy and are now barely visible...

He later admitted no such plot existed and apologised publicly to the men he had accused: Cyril Ramaphosa Mathews Phosa and Tokyo Sexwale formerly Mbeki's rivals for the party leadership now successful in business...

The usual suspects: ANC ex-Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa 50 Gauteng ex-Premier Tokyo Sexwale 49 and Mpumalanga ex-Premier Mathews Phosa were all named by Tshwete as suspects in an anti-Mbeki plot: he later apologised to them when police found the suspicions groundless...

Ramano who is also chairman of Johnnic Publishing is in fact a minor member of the Venda royal family Cyril Ramaphosa's ethnic group...

) and partly to Johnnic chaired by former ANC Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa...

Cyril Ramaphosa former General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers chief negotiator with the apartheid regime former Secretary General of the ANC ex-President Nelson Mandela's (unsuccessful) choice as his successor and now a rich businessman; 2...

A far more favoured contender is Cyril Ramaphosa who was named by Nelson Mandela as his preferred successor but lost out to Mbeki...