Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

For pan-African economic alliances and security cooperation much is riding on the summit between Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Muhammadu Buhari due to hold on 3 October in South Africa...

Cyril Ramaphosa's supporters have claimed that the broadcast of the wrong version of the President's recent address to the nation was 'deliberate sabotage' by supporters and appointees in the South African Broadcasting Corporation of former President Jacob Zuma and African National Congress Secretary General Ace Magashule...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has regained some political stability by seeing off opponents on both his political flanks...

The moves are part of President Cyril Ramaphosa's programme to reform the party and stop its calamitous slide in the polls but Magashule is regarded by many supporters of the President as part of problem and incapable of providing the solution (AC Vol 60 No 16 Meltdown in the party)...

Battered by an economy in recession and a ruling party riven by corruption President Cyril Ramaphosa's ability to drive radical economic and political reforms is coming increasingly into doubt...

For President Cyril Ramaphosa reforming and restructuring the ANC is a vital part of his campaign to rebuild state institutions and strengthen the economy and could have consequences for his own position...

After the latest round of proxy battles President Cyril Ramaphosa is marginally ahead of his predecessor Jacob Zuma but his supporters warn that his opponents still control too many levers in the African National Congress...

The increasingly vicious war between opposing ANC factions has reached new heights after Zuma testified at the commission and Zuma-appointed Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane  ruled that Presiden Cyril Ramaphosa deliberately misled Parliament about contributions to his 2017 election campaign funds and engaged in money laundering (AC Vol 60 No 12 A tale of two ANCs)...

Development in the Sahel will be a major theme of the G7 summit in Biarritz on 24-26 August to which Macron has invited Burkina's President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré as current chair of the G5 and other African presidents: Senegal's Macky Sall Rwanda's Paul Kagame South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa the current African Union chair Abdel Fattah el Sisi and the AU commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat...

Opponents of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the ruling African National Congress have opened a new front in the ruthless campaign to remove him from office by 2021 or at least ensure that he does not serve a second five-year term...