Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

Sorting out Cyril Mbeki may see the popular Cyril Ramaphosa (AC Vol 44 No 9) as his strongest rival and be preparing to sideline him again once he has dealt with Zuma...

Among the invited guests at the launch were African BEE heavyweights now in the firing line as 'fat cats': Mvelaphanda's Tokyo Sexwale Nail's Saki Macazoma Real Africa's Don Ncube Safika's Moss Ngoasheng and even Cyril Ramaphosa (AC Vol 44 No 9) once the then President Nelson Mandela's choice for SA's presidency...

One figure does enjoy the private support of many in the ANC hierarchy: Cyril Ramaphosa...

Another contender Defence Minister and ANC Chairman Mosioua 'Terror' Lekota will probably wait for 2009 to run; so will Mbeki's old rival Cyril Ramaphosa now a rich businessman who did well in the vote for the National Executive Committee...

Last year's potential challengers Mathews Phosa Tokyo Sexwale and Cyril Ramaphosa were besmirched by farcical accusations of conspiracy and are now barely visible...

He later admitted no such plot existed and apologised publicly to the men he had accused: Cyril Ramaphosa Mathews Phosa and Tokyo Sexwale formerly Mbeki's rivals for the party leadership now successful in business...

The usual suspects: ANC ex-Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa 50 Gauteng ex-Premier Tokyo Sexwale 49 and Mpumalanga ex-Premier Mathews Phosa were all named by Tshwete as suspects in an anti-Mbeki plot: he later apologised to them when police found the suspicions groundless...

Ramano who is also chairman of Johnnic Publishing is in fact a minor member of the Venda royal family Cyril Ramaphosa's ethnic group...

) and partly to Johnnic chaired by former ANC Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa...