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  James Motlatse (C), president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Cyril Ramaphosa (R), general secretary of NUM join hands in singing the national anthem with mineworkers after the NUM executive had met 26 August 1987 to say that its entire membership had voted to continue their 17 day old gold and coal miners strike until their demand had been met by mine owners. (Samson, AFP)
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  ANC Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa (L) chats with Nelson Mandela after their arrival in Kempton Park, Johannesburg on 18 November 1993, where political leaders formally endorsed a constitutional blueprint that will end 300 years of white minority rule. (Walter Dhladhla, AFP)
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  African National Congress President Nelson Mandela (C) looks over at Afrikaner People's Union President Andries Beyers (R) 21 May 1993 during a press conference. On left, is ANC General Secretary Cyril Ramaphosa. (Philip Littleton, AFP)
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  African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Cyril Ramaphosa at a press confrerence in Soweto on 18 February, 1993. Ramaphosa said, the ANC would endorse an interim government of national unity for a period of five years after South Africa's first democratic election. (Walter Dhladhla, AFP)
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  ANC Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa (R) and a bodyguard run for cover under fire as shooting broke out during a peace tour of a black township with South African Commnist Party Leader Joe Slovo in Januray 1994. (Walter Dhladhla, AFP)
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  Cyril Ramaphosa, head of the South African Constitutional Assembly (CA) addresses Parliament in Cape Town on 08 May 1996, prior to a vote on the new constitution. The constitution, the first to be drafted by a multiracial parliament, was voted and adopted by the Constitutional Assembly with an overwhelming majority. (Anna Zieminski, AFP)
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  Chairman of the Constitutional Assembly Cyril Ramaphosa (C) holds up a copy of the country's new constitution freshly signed by President Nelson Mandela (R) at Sharpville stadium, near Vereeniging on 10 December 1996. In 1960, this otherwise unremarkable township of Johannesburg was the scene of an apartheid police massacre of 69 unarmed black civil rights protesters. (Adil Bradlow, AFP)
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  South African President Nelson Mandela (R) signs the country's new constitution while ANC's chief negociator during the drafting process Cyril Ramaphosa looks on, on 10 December 1996. (Adil Bradlow, AFP)
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  Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair (2ndR) and Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson (L) pose with IRA arms dump inspectors Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa (2nd L) and former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari (R) during a breakfast meeting at Downing Street in London on 02 November, 2000. (Fiona Hanson, AFP)
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  South African Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel (L), greets Cyril Ramaphosa (R), former Co-Chairman of the Constitutional Assembly, the body which drew up South Africa's constitution, outside parliament 08 May 2006, during celebration of the 10th anniversary, of the bringing into law the country's first democratic constitution. (Rodger Bosch, AFP)
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  Cyril Ramaphosa, chairman of the African National Congress (ANC) party's National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal (NDCA), speaks during a press conference at Chief Albert Luthuli House in Johannesburg on February 4, 2012, the day South Africa's ruling ANC suspended fiery youth leader Julius Malema. (Moeletsi Mabe, AFP)
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  New reelected ANC president Jacob Zuma talks with newly elected deputy president of the party Cyril Ramaphosa during the 53 rd National Conference of the ANC in Bloemfontein. (Stephanie De Sakutin, AFP)

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