Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

President Cyril Ramaphosa who chairs the African Union has made its voice heard about Floyd but has been silent on those who died at the hands of security forces in South Africa...

Before the Covid-19 pandemic struck South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his centrist supporters were locked in combat with followers of former President Jacob Zuma African National Congress Secretary-General Ace Magashule and Deputy President David Mabuza...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has bowed to mounting business and popular pressure to ease the lockdown from 1 June but has warned that the worst of the pandemic is still to come...

After an initial period of broad public acceptance of the government's efforts to manage the pandemic and approval in particular for the measured approach taken by President Cyril Ramaphosa tempers are fraying...

They might explain a call by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa at an African Union teleconference on 28 April for Western states and the IFIs to lift sanctions against the Mnangagwa government...

The launch was addressed by heads of government including French President Emmanuel Macron German Chancellor Angela Merkel and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa...

Unlike South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa who has used the health crisis there to reassert his leadership position President Muhammadu Buhari has made just three broadcasts on the emergency in the past two months the latest was on 27 April when he announced a phased easing of the lockdown in Lagos Abuja and Ogun State...

President Cyril Ramaphosa's 500 billion rand (US$26bn) stimulus to sustain South Africa's already precarious economy during the Covid-19 lockdown has been welcomed by business and opposition leaders but not unanimously...

After several days of talks mediated by Jeff Radebe South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's special envoy after Thabane sent troops onto the streets of Maseru the ruling All Basotho Congress and opposition Democratic Congress struck a deal to form a government...

With South Africa in the third week of a lockdown that may only be lifted at the end of April and possibly not even then President Cyril Ramaphosa and Health Minister Zweli Mkhize have been riding a wave of approval with both praised for decisive leadership in handling the coronavirus outbreak (AC Vol 61 No 7 Cyril's double crisis)...