For President Cyril Ramaphosa the local elections on 1 November will be a referendum on his reforms and a sign of his party support a year before he stands for re-election as president of the governing African National Congress...

The put-down came from ANC election chief Fikile Mbalula who also serves as Transport Minister in President Cyril Ramaphosa's government...

Despite his past ownership of mining interests and links with the top companies President Cyril Ramaphosa says the government will appeal the judgement...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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