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...

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)...

Yet several senior African National Congress officials say that President Cyril Ramaphosa's position is weakening and don't rule out 'a nuclear accident' in the coming party elections which could push him out of power all orchestrated by his opponents...

It was a major defeat for ANCYL convener Nonceba Mhlauli who is an ally of Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele a top strategist for President Cyril Ramaphosa...