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	     Zondo's statement  against which senior members of the governing African National Congress have pushed back  came a week before President Cyril Ramaphosa was exonerated by a parliamentary committee investigating the illegal storage of foreign exchange at his private game farm...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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            Vol 64 No 14 | 
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	    The rejection by the Public Protector of accusations against President Cyril Ramaphosa of wrongdoing over the discovery that he and his employees had been storing hundreds of thousands of dollars at his game farm boosts the beleaguered leader after his most difficult year in power...
	 
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	     South African President Cyril Ramaphosa  who led the delegation to St Petersburg  told Russian President Vladimir Putin  that 'the war has to have an end'...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 64 No 13 | 
            - SOUTH AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Cyril Ramaphosa's leadership of what appeared to be a shambolic African 'peace mission' to Ukraine and Russia via Poland last week has deepened concerns in political and diplomatic circles about the president's grip...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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	    The African peace mission to Ukraine and Russia did not recover from a diplomatic row with Poland last Friday (16 June) after a delegation of guards and the media was stopped in Warsaw over a dispute about the weapons permits for President Cyril Ramaphosa's entourage...
	 
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            Vol 64 No 13 | 
            - FRANCE
 - AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Many African heads of state have confirmed they will attend  including Bola Tinubu of Nigeria  Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and Abdel Fattah el Sisi of Egypt...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     We also hear that on the day before his media briefing Brigety had warned a senior figure in President Cyril Ramaphosa's office and a top business person that he would be speaking bluntly about Pretoria's stance on arms shipments to Moscow...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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	     Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky have agreed to separate meetings with leaders from Zambia  Senegal  Congo-Brazzaville  Uganda and Egypt to discuss a possible plan to end the war  as part of the 'peace mission' proposed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa...
	 
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	     Despite being the first leader to be granted a state visit after Charles became King  President Cyril Ramaphosa  did not attend the Coronation  instead attending a Great Lakes regional summit (AC Vol 63 No 23  Cyril in Empireland)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 64 No 9 | 
            - SOUTH AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     President Cyril Ramaphosa  although still seen by the ANC as the best bet to counter the party's decline  has lost support due to his handling of a money-laundering scandal after a stash of foreign currency was discovered at his private game farm (AC Vol 64 No 7  Now it's Ramaphosa central)...