Cyril Ramaphosa
President of South Africa
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Ramaphosa Suspends SAPS Commissioner Masemola After Court Charges Over R228 Million Medicare 24 Contract Linked to Alleged Crime Figure
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday placed National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola on precautionary suspension after his appearance in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on charges of contravening the Public Finance Management Act, tied to the awarding of a R228 million contract to Medicare 24 — a firm linked to alleged criminal mastermind Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala. SAPS finance-division head Lieutenant-General Puleng Dimpane was appointed acting commissioner the same afternoon.
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South Africa Sends the Man Who Negotiated the End of Apartheid to Washington as Its New Ambassador
President Ramaphosa appointed Roelf Meyer, 78, who served as the apartheid government's chief negotiator opposite Ramaphosa himself in the 1990s. The post has been vacant for over a year after Trump expelled the previous ambassador for calling MAGA a 'supremacist instinct.'