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OWN CORRESPONDENT and REUTERS, Cape Town | Thursday ATTEMPTS to bring South Africa’s black majority into the economic mainstream have failed and must be replaced by a new law to force the pace, says leading businessman Cyril Ramaphosa. “Black people remain at the periphery of the economy. They need access to funding and markets,” says […]

Howard Barrell OVERABARREL Britain’s campaign to seize the Falklands Islands back from Argentina in 1982 provided the backdrop for a delightfully executed deception against a South African journalist. For a number of years, the journalist, who shall remain nameless, had maintained a fruitful (though proper) relationship with a locally based British diplomat who was not […]

Jaspreet Kindra The acting Minister of Intelligence, Penuell Maduna, has denied the existence of an investigation into an alleged plot to replace President Thabo Mbeki with Cyril Ramaphosa, the former secretary general of the African National Congress. In a separate comment, the Inspector General of Intelligence, Fazel Randera, questioned whether it would have been appropriate […]

history Maggie O’Kane in Belfast When Cyril Ramaphosa arrived at his office in Johannesburg at 11.30am on Tuesday June 27, he ended a seven-day journey that took him across the world and into Ireland’s history books. He is a witness to what may finally be the end of 30 years of violence, human loss and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday 12.45pm. FORMER South African politician Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and former South African politician Cyril Ramaphosa met British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday at the start of an IRA arms monitoring mission crucial to peace in Northern Ireland. The two men met Blair in his Downing Street office before […]

Howard Barrell The row over the Financial Mail’s endorsement last week of the United Democratic Movement in the forthcoming election has brought into sharp relief the relationship between editorial independence and media ownership in South Africa. This week’s Financial Mail carries a lengthy rebuttal of the endorsement by one of the publication’s co-owners, former African […]

A businessman has been accused of using the presence of his friend Cyril Ramaphosa at a braai to pressure provincial officials over a valuable contract, writes Stefaans Brmmer CYRIL RAMAPHOSA has been caught in a potential wrangle between two provinces over a lucrative game park concession. Eyebrows have been raised over the outgoing African National […]

Africa Investments Ltd, in THE MARK GEVISSER PROFILE Rhodes, Rupert, Ramaphosa WHEN Nthatho Motlana ann-ounced that Cyril Ramaphosa was to join his New Africa Investments Ltd (Nail) and lead the bid to acquire Johnnic from Anglo American, the Sowetan – wholly owned by Nail – put out a 40-page souvenir edition to commemorate the fact. […]