Businessman Cyril Ramaphosa has emerged as the favourite to succeed Thabo Mbeki as president of South Africa in a survey. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel emerges as second favourite choice of South Africans and official opposition leader Tony Leon is in third place.
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/ 27 January 2005
Top businessman Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday he had never even seen the luxury R3-million Maybach 62 vehicle he was said to own. Ramaphosa has launched a defamation case against DaimlerChrysler for claiming he was one of four people in southern Africa to have bought one of the cars.
FirstRand announced on Tuesday that Cyril Ramaphosa has resigned as a non-executive director of the banking group. "Mr Ramaphosa … has been offered an opportunity to participate in a BEE [black economic empowerment] transaction, which will result in a conflict of interest with his existing position," a statement said.
Rightwingers plotting to overthrow the government had brief intentions of assassinating businessman and former politician Cyril Ramaphosa, the Boeremag treason trial was told on Monday. Coup plotter turned state witness Lourens du Plessis said he had dissuaded two accomplices who had ideas of killing President Thabo Mbeki.
Boeremag plotted to replace Parliament
The Democratic Alliance called on President Thabo Mbeki on Monday to investigate and discipline those who instigated prominent ANC member Cyril Ramaphosa’s ”intervention” in the Scorpions’ probe into Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
Two opposition parties on Monday said it would be inappropriate for former constitutional negotiator and now top businessman Cyril Ramaphosa to mediate in the process of any possible plea bargain involving Deputy President Jacob Zuma and others.
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/ 22 February 2002
Fiona Macleod and Suzan Chala Businessman Cyril Ramaphosa joins deputy president of the National Union of Mineworkers Chrosby Moni on the board of trustees that will oversee the multimillion-rand payout to victims of Cape plc asbestos mines. The board, announced this week, includes retiring British lawyer Sarah Leigh OBE, two doctors who cannot be named […]
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/ 31 October 2001
Bisho | Wednesday IF the Ciskei soldiers had followed standard procedure they would not have fired without warning on ANC marchers at Bisho in September 1992, businessman Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday. Ramaphosa, who was African National Congress secretary-general at the time of September 7, 1992 march on Bisho, was giving evidence to the Bisho […]