Against this backdrop planning a state visit for President Cyril Ramaphosa to London on 22-24 November with its new heads of government and state may prove either to be inspired diplomacy or disastrously timed...

The decision by the African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) South Africa's second biggest province and its largest reservoir of party members to choose former health minister Zweli Mkhize as its preferred candidate for party president has come as a shock to supporters of President Cyril Ramaphosa...

Senegalese President Macky Sall and South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa also called for an end to Zimbabwean sanctions the former in a speech before the General Assembly saying the 'harsh measures continue to fuel a sense of injustice against an entire people'...

' ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa's plans for national renewal and economic reform were failing because the party is mired in its own corruption scandals and faction-fighting argued Zibi...

If President Cyril Ramaphosa and his favoured candidates win in December and the prosecutions of ousted President Jacob Zuma and his allies go ahead he should be able to fend off the RET's pressure ahead of the 2024 elections...

The topic of the day is who is best placed to challenge Cyril Ramaphosa for the leadership of the ANC – Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma or Zweli Mkhize...

The rise and stall of Zweli Mkhize Former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize helped lead the country through the Covid crisis and many had believed he would take over from President Cyril Ramaphosa before he was forced to resign after a corruption scandal over a communications company hired by his department at the height of the pandemic (AC Vol 61 No 8 Heroes and villains in the pandemic)...

Before Geingob, President Cyril Ramaphosa was the one to face the stonewalling King Mswati III...

Even ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa cannot be certain of victory in the party and that he will be its choice as presidential contender in the next election...

Her detractors say she is too young at 46 and some see the former banker as too close to Cyril Ramaphosa...

In his closing address to the African National Congress's 6th policy conference in Johannesburg on 31 July President Cyril Ramaphosa said the gathering was overwhelmingly in favour of retaining the 'step-aside' rule which requires ANC members charged with corruption to step back from public office until they have been cleared...

It was a humiliation for President Cyril Ramaphosa which damaged his chances of winning a second term as president...

While the pro-Cyril Ramaphosa ‘Ankole' faction fear the prospect of losing the province and possibly the nation the pro-Zuma ‘Taliban' seem to view it with greater equanimity so long as it means their dominance of the party continues ...