Tshabalala who has strong diplomatic skills knows the AfDB inside-out and benefited from the personal support of South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa...
Then in early April Hichilema went on an official visit to try to get President Cyril Ramaphosa to convince Lungu to quit politics but Ramaphosa snubbed him...
Until a month ago the chances of President Cyril Ramaphosa getting a constructive meeting with his United States counterpart Donald J Trump appeared vanishingly small...
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Her remarks proved prescient hours later when United States President Donald Trump ambushed South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office...
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Goldman Sachs has positioned itself as the trade whisperer to United States President Donald Trump holding talks with several African leaders including South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa about trade and improving relations with the US...
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Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has been weakened after the three-month budget dispute that brought President Cyril Ramaphosa's Government of National Unity to the brink of collapse...
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Vol 66 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Cyril Ramaphosa also won a boost from keeping the fractious coalition together on 25 and was able to tell South Africans about a planned meeting with United States President Donald Trump to resolve the rumbling diplomatic differences between the two countries...
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Vol 66 No 8 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
This prospect alarms Godongwana and President Cyril Ramaphosa as it risks a run on the rand and deterring investors...
' A former ANC executive member who worked with Mbalula Mashatile and ANC First Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane at Luthuli House told Africa Confidential that the real contest is now between Mbalula and Mashatile who are vying for the ANC presidency in 2027 when Cyril Ramaphosa steps down after two terms...
That reality will inform President Cyril Ramaphosa's choice of ambassador to Washington to replace the expelled Rasool...
As the new United States administration targets South Africa on policy and the European Union on tariffs it has triggered an opposite reaction – bringing President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria closer to President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on a host of diplomatic and security issues...