Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

Two high-profile business candidates with deep pockets - Tokyo Sexwale and Cyril Ramaphosa - have joined the presidential succession race but they face suspicion from several senior African National Congress officials who want the party to keep its distance from commercial influences...

To that list is now added two ANC politicians-turned-businessmen: Cyril Ramaphosa and Tokyo Sexwale...

ANC leaders including Nelson Mandela's long-time ally Walter Sisulu overruled Mandela whose choice was Cyril Ramaphosa...

Cyril Ramaphosa's personal fortune is listed as 500 million rand (US$72 mn) but informal estimates put it at around R2 billion...

Union leader turned tycoon Cyril Ramaphosa has discreetly informed senior members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) that he is prepared to be a candidate for the presidency of the African National Congress (ANC) at its national conference in December...

Cyril Ramaphosa the former ANC General Secretary who was a leading figure in the UDF is frequently touted as a candidate...

Other candidates for the ANC's presidential nomination - such as former ANC Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni - will only emerge in the coming months...

That worried contenders such as the former Premier of Gauteng Province Tokyo Sexwale former ANC General Secretary Cyril Ramaphosa and former Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa...

He would face a strong challenge from Cyril Ramaphosa whose background is in the unions...

TWBA Lascaris in which Cyril Ramaphosa has a 25 per cent stake lost the contract to Ogilvy...

Failing that Mbeki would prefer Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula to the activists-turned-businessmen Cyril Ramaphosa or Tokyo Sexwale; others in line include Gauteng Premier Sam Shilowa Limpopo Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi and Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni...

She or whoever else Mbeki may choose to appoint as his deputy next year is likely to be challenged by Cyril Ramaphosa the trades union-leader-turned-businessman who still clocks in as the ANC's second most popular executive member and is thought to harbour political ambitions...