The Latest Breaking News from Cyril Ramaphosa

Ahead of the warlord’s funeral today, there have been nauseating attempts to kindly reassess him. Don’t fall for it, says the Guardian’s former South Africa correspondent Chris McGreal

After a battle of about four years to secure the removal of South Africa’s public protector, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, the country’s parliament finally delivered the coup de grace in early September. Parliamentarians voted to impeach her just a month before her term was due to end. President Cyril Ramaphosa subsequently…

No single country to lead Global South, saysSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa's spokesperson Vincent Magwenya; stresses importance of Global South having a voice in multilateral platforms

Africa’s largest meeting on the crisis finished last week amid arguments over ‘false solutions’ and unfulfilled promises. But will the lofty ideals presented translate into better lives for Africans?

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the death of controversial South African politician and traditional minister of the Zulu ethnic group Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi at the age of 95

A presidential inquiry in South Africa has found government officials didn't know a U.S.-sanctioned Russian ship was assigned to deliver military equipment to the country until the vessel neared national waters

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says baseless claim by US ambassador ‘tarnished our image’.

As the war enters its 558th day, these are the main developments.

The fire that killed at least 76 people last week in a rundown apartment block in Johannesburg has exposed not only the urban decay of South Africa's “city of gold” but also a failure of its post-apartheid government to provide for many of its poor Black majority

Emergency services teams have left the scene of one of South Africa’s deadliest inner-city fires Pathologists now face the grisly task of identifying dozens of charred bodies and some body parts that have been transported to several mortuaries across the city of Johannesburg

Watch as Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, is expected to visit the site of the Johannesburg fire that killed more than 70 people on Thursday 31 August.