The election of Cyril Ramaphosa as the new president of the African National Congress (ANC) is “too little too late” for the party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said in a statement on Monday. “The ANC is dead and cannot self-correct, no matter who is at the helm,” DA leader Mmusi[…]
Cyril Ramaphosa is the 14th president of the African National Congress. After a gruelling election campaign to win the party leadership, 2 440 delegates voted for Ramaphosa to lead the country’s governing party for the next five years. The losing candidate, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, received 2 261 votes. The rest of[…]
Outgoing ANC treasurer general Zweli Mkhize turned down nomination for the position of party deputy president after striking a deal with Mpumalanga premier David Mabuza‚ sources said. Mkhize stunned ANC conference delegates when he took to the podium in Nasrec on Sunday night to withdraw his candidature at the eleventh[…]
EFF leader Julius Malema has put his head on the block about who will win the ANC’s hotly contested leadership race this weekend. Malema suggested on Thursday that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa would be the ruling party’s next president. The ANC is meeting from Saturday to Wednesday to decide its[…]
President Jacob Zuma will appeal a high court ruling that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa should be the one to appoint a new National Director of Public Prosecutions. A full bench of the North Gauteng High Court found that Zuma cannot appoint a new prosecutions boss because there is a conflict[…]
Water Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane has criticised ANC presidential hopeful Cyril Ramaphosa for being two-faced towards President Jacob Zuma and warns that there is “danger” about him. “I sit with them [Ramaphosa and Zuma] in the national executive committee (NEC), national working committee (NWC) and Cabinet and you see them[…]
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that buying votes is a “new disease” gripping the ANC. “It is concerning to a point where it is going to dilute democracy within our organisation‚” Ramaphosa said on Thursday night on the Karima Brown Show on Radio 702. “We’ve been hearing stories that[…]
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa won endorsement from most African National Congress branches to succeed President Jacob Zuma as ruling party leader, giving him an edge — but not a guarantee of victory — in this month’s election. Ramaphosa was nominated for the presidency of the ANC by 1,862 branches, while[…]
South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday condemned threats against members of parliament inquiring into allegations of state capture at power utility Eskom. “We will not accept that people should be threatened and abused simply because they are doing their job, a job they were elected for,” Ramaphosa told[…]
Presidential hopeful Cyril Ramaphosa has called on authorities to fast-track investigations into state capture. Speaking at the Cadres Assembly in Mahikeng, North West, on Sunday, Ramaphosa urged state institutions not be overtaken by the FBI, which has opened an investigation into the Gupta family’s involvement in state capture. “The FBI[…]
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