Ramaphosa needs Mantashe as he deals with the aftermath of the rioting sparked by the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma looming elections public sector wage negotiations and the run-up to the 2022 ANC conference...

The reshuffle has struck a decisive blow to the so-called Radical Economic Transformation (RET) wing of former President Jacob Zuma and suspended ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule both of whom face protracted corruption trials (AC Vol 61 No 23 Ace arrest boosts Cyril)...

Ramaphosa narrowly beat Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Jacob Zuma's ex-wife for ANC president at the elective conference in 2017 while Lindiwe Sisulu who has had more senior cabinet posts than any other woman in the ANC initially challenged Ramaphosa before withdrawing (AC Vol 59 No 1 Pushing Zuma to the exit & Vol 62 No 10 Magashule overplays his hand)...

The government is taking a hard look at its own intelligence and security leaders in the aftermath of the orchestrated campaign of sabotage and protests which morphed into an orgy of looting and violence following the arrest and jailing of former President Jacob Zuma...

Makhura's cabinet has now been purged of politicians affiliated to former President Jacob Zuma or Ace Magashule the embattled party secretary-general but remains a hotbed of intrigue...

It has the biggest ANC membership of any province and was the launching pad for Jacob Zuma's bid for the presidency but the party is now riven by murderous factional rivalries and controversies over contract corruption on an epic scale (AC Vol 60 No 16 Meltdown in the party)...

A confluence of widespread economic despair hunger and protest sparked by the jailing of former South African President Jacob Zuma began with a deliberate act of sabotage (AC Vol 62 No 14 Relief as Zuma surrenders)...

At the stroke of midnight and after hours of negotiating with senior officers ex-President Jacob Zuma handed himself over to police on 7 July...

This story was updated following ex-President Jacob Zuma's arrest at midnight on 7 July...

The Guptas who fled with Essa to Dubai in 2016 acquired huge influence in government through cultivating former President Jacob Zuma and key members of his family (AC Vol 57 No 8 Africa probes the Panama connection)...

Their influence which extended to picking compliant ministers and filling senior roles at the tax collector SARS the NPA and the intelligence and law enforcement agencies gave the brothers sweeping powers under Jacob Zuma's government...

The key trials will be those of former President Jacob Zuma currently under way ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule and 11 others on fraud and money-laundering charges and that of Zuma's former State Security Minister Bongani Bongo on various corruption charges (AC Vol 62 No 11 Fightback lands in the courts)...