So, what is he then?

Is Cyril really the “guardian of the good”?

Ramaphosa was given a reminder of Marikana at the funeral of Prudence Mabele.

The Deputy is getting louder and louder.

Juju says Ramaphosa or Dlamini-Zuma won’t make a difference.

All the complexities, simply explained.

No more hiding.

Cyril Ramaphosa has made it clear that he’s ready to lead.

Selflessness and Jacob Zuma. Goes together like chalk and cheese…

Nkosazana who?

ANN7 is owned by the Guptas. You do the maths…

Unlike the ANC, the Congress of South African Trade Unions is very much capable of disciplining its leaders when they step out of line.

The internal processes of South Africa’s ruling ANC for electing the president is distorted by money, patronage, factionalism and vote-rigging. It negates the democratic legitimacy the party claims.

That’s how you deal with unruly leaders.

Jacob Zuma’s continued support from within the ruling party is costing the ANC votes outside.

A very public snub.

This weekend the ANC’s National Executive Council meets to, among other things, discuss the future of their tainted commander in chief.

The trade union federation and key Tripartite Alliance partner has made it clear that Cyril Ramaphosa, not Jacob Zuma, is invited to address members going forward.

The SA Council of Churches’ (SACC) belief that the country is on the brink of becoming a mafia state is worrying, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says.

It’ll be like 2016 all over again.

Opposition leader Mmusi Maimane is taking advantage of the deterioration of the ANC Tripartite Alliance, and plans to build one of his own design.

Zuma’seems to be on a mission to cripple the Tripartite Alliance in the run-up to the 2019 elections.

ANC stalwart and former treasurer general Mathews Phosa believes it’s the NEC that is to blame for shirking their responsibilities and allowing Zuma to run amok.

Ah man, this is just too good, even the DA had to laugh.

The Deputy President had a very good response.

The pro-Zuma camp is fighting back.

Ramaphosa is on the up, Zuma and his allies… not so much.

Should’ve prayed harder, Jacob…

New police minister Fikile Mbalula has openly attacked deputy president — for now — Cyril Ramaphosa and ANC stalwart and former treasurer general Mathews Phosa.

Well, let’s hope so.

In his first public interview since bing booted by Jacob Zuma, former finance minister Pravin Gordhan had a few words of wisdom to share with the besieged ANC.

We, the people…

In an interview with CNN, axed finance minister Pravin Gordhan threw his weight behind deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, echoing his calls for a judicial commission of enquiry into state capture.

Well, that’s that then, isn’t it?

Say what now?

Earlier this month the Mail&Guardian reported that a handful of ANC members who were seen as critical of jacob Zuma had received death threats.

Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa over the weekend unofficially kicked off his campaign for ANC presidency in the Xhosa heartland, with a pretty strong message for some within the ruling party.

The deputy president had a strong message for those who would seek to dispossess South Africans of a government for and by the people.

Deputy — for now — president Cyril Ramaphosa has taken a stab at ‘leaders’ who ignore the concerns of the people they’re elected to lead.

Cyril is starting to talk big, is he about to take action?

A vibrant democracy on the brink of something truly extraordinary or too little too late?

This is turning out to be an extraordinary political day.

If it were a popularity contest Zuma would have lost.., oh wait, it is.

The Deputy President had some “strong” words on the economy…

The Vice President has a monstrous task on his hands…

The phrase, “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” describes the difficult situation President Jacob Zuma finds himself entangled in, as a social grant crisis unfolds, much to the panic of 17 million recipients as to whether they would get paid come 1 April.

A cabinet reshuffle could lead to a split in the ANC that would see key members quit and use their power as MPs to initiate a vote of no confidence in Jacob Zuma.

In an attempt to save the ANC’s 2019 election campaign, Jackson Mthembu has endorsed Cyril Ramaphosa as the next president of the ruling party.

Many think it’s far too low. Do we still have a long way to go?

In an uncharacteristically frank admission, deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted that the ANC is under som pretty heavy strain.

EFF leader Julius Malema has weighed in on the ANC succession debate ahead of the ruling party’s 54th national elective conference in December.

Mzansi’s clearly putting its best foot forward, with deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and finance minister Pravin Gordhan representing us at #WEF2017.

No, really!?

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has advised learners starting the 2017 school year to emulate the behaviour of their clever counterparts.

Despite being told off for ‘prematurely’ endorsing a candidate for the ANC’s succession race by giving their vote to Zuma’s ex wife, the Women’s League refuses to back down on its decision.

While party structures vie for a a candidate they believe would benefit their interests most, ordinary South Africans seem to have endorsed Ramaphosa as our next president.

Hold onto your hats, folks, the race to succeed JZ is gonna get feisty.

Cyril Ramaphosa is in pole position to become president of South Africa’s ruling ANC, 20 years after he lost the position to Thabo Mbeki. But it won’t be easy, and neither will rebuilding the party.

After two decades of political dominance, the electoral performance of the ANC is at its lowest since it became the governing party in 1994. But is the party really unraveling?

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is available to take on the position of president of the ANC in 2017 should he garner enough support to do so.

Not so much fun when old alliance partners turn on you, it is?

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A group of community volunteers in Daveyton took their frustrations of not having been paid for seven months out on Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa during a World AIDS Day event.

ANC NEC member Tony Yengeni says the party needs to learn from the example of Cuba to stop comrades “turning on each other” for positions.

The South African economy is not growing at the rate required to decisively tackle unemployment, inequality and poverty, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday.

Nothing to do with the divisive leader of the party, then?

Metalworkers union Numsa on Tuesday criticised Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa for trying to legislate what it calls “slave wages for blacks and Africans”.

Not one week after the ANC had to ‘discipline’ it’s youth league; the party’s kindergarten branch yet again runs its mouth… this time attacking deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa.

Things are getting real.

Nothing escapes the Daily Show host; have a look as he takes a swipe at deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa’s condom reveal in parly.

Yes, there was even a point of order raised…

Deputy president Cycil Ramaphosa has done a little soul-searching and come to the conclusion that party leaders must take individual responsibility for the ANC’s poor performance at the polls.

This week saw el presidente ask for more money for his office from parliament, but with no one there to hold him to account his budget was quickly approved by the ANC caucus in the National Assembly.

There are several aspects to the current “state capture” debate. To start with, there is nothing new about state capture. It has always been the ANC’s openly proclaimed, and profoundly unconstitutional, policy to capture the state to promote its own political and ideological interests.

Someone quick! Check if Mac Maharaj has died; Cyril appears to be channelling his spirit.

Cyril Ramaphosa has committed ‘billions’ of taxpayer’s money to a more aggressive BBBEE strategy in the foreseeable future and promised an end to white economic control.

The Guptas will not go down alone. They’ll drag the ANC down with them. This is what counted against a precipitous decision to recall Zuma.

A 58 year-old woman who had to borrow taxi money to see deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa at an ANC event was left in tears when she was forced to leave her seat to accommodate the ANC’s VIPs.

According to almost president Cyril Ramaphosa, not all of South Africa’s 700 SOE’s are performing poorly; that said, government believes that we would perform even better if we were to adopt a Chinese model of state ownership.

Our government doesn’t know, the Chinese say they had links to terrorists, but haven’t actually charged them with terrorism and all the while Ramaphosa is having a blast… in China.

Julius Malema has called for Ramaphosa’s arrest, following the deputy president’s involvement in Lonmin before becoming vice pressie in 2014.

The Economic Freedom Fighters have rejected the move to link e-toll fees to the renewal of motor vehicle licenses, saying the ANC has given us a “dompas to move from one place to the other”.

35 ministers, 37 deputies, two new ministries, and a partridge in a pear tree. And you thought Nkandla was a bad investment

Cyril Ramaphosa was appointed Deputy President and Deputy Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene was promoted to minister of finance in President Jacob Zuma’s new Cabinet, announced on Sunday evening following his inauguration for a second term as President on Saturday.

“There are so many messages in the booing of Jacob Zuma. The first is that South Africans are suspicious of power. They are quick to show contempt for people who they feel have abused power. People worry that the ANC might tear up the constitution and try to govern forever. But South African political culture is too irreverent to let anyone govern forever.”

Zuma was booed when the screens showed him arriving with two of his wives. Barack Obama, Mandela’s wife Graça Machel, ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former presidents Thabo Mbeki FW De Klerk and Cuban President Raúl Castro received loud cheers from the crowd.

ANC deputy president and Struggle stalwart Cyril Ramphosa has put backs up after a stray comment to a Limpopo resident yesterday upset Afrikaans-speaking South Africans

One year on from South Africa’s most bloody act of state brutality since apartheid days, what has been the aftermath of the Marikana massacre, and have living and working conditions for mineworkers changed much since?