Cyril Ramaphosa

**Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa** (November 17, 1972 -) was a Ducistian politician and statesman who is currently serving as the 9th President of Ducist from January 10, 2031, having previously served as the 7th President of Ducist between October 1, 2025 and October 1, 2030, and as Prime Minister of the Transitional Council of Ducist between October 5, 2030 and February 10, 2031, and as the leader of Ascendency from November 10, 2024.

Entering into politics in 1998 as a member of founding Ducistian President Nelson Mandela's political party Ascendency, Cyril Ramaphosa began his political career as a senator in the 1990s before becoming a junior member of the Thabo Mbeki government in 2000 and then later again as a more senior member of the Nyusi administration, serving as the Minister of Defence between 2020 and 2022, before being reshuffled to the Foreign Ministry in 2022 as part of President Nyusi's ambition to side with the Confederacy of Independent Nations in the Libirachi Civil War, sending out Ramaphosa as an envoy to try and court the attention of confederate leader Almac Docu, who for the most part ignored Nyusi and Ramaphosa due to Ducist not being within the Libirachi sphere of influence. However, after supporting the CIN in the Battle of the Pacific, the Libirachi Empire funded a political coalition which voted President Nyusi out of office and replaced him with Vice President João Lourenço in November 2024, allowing Cyril Ramaphosa to secure the leadership of Ascendency and sweep to office for his first term in the 2025 Ducist Presidential Election.

Taking office in October 2025, Cyril Ramaphosa inherited a nation with brewing civil tensions and began to enact a slew of aggressive policies to strengthen Ducistian boarders and increase the army, expanding into neighbouring nations to bring them into the Federation of Ducist, earning him the ire of the United States of America and Dunsteen, who attempted to block the annexations through the United Nations, although with a veto from the Libirachi Empire, the motion failed. Subsequently, with the backing of Libirachi Empress Penny Fox, Cyril Ramaphosa was able to consolidate his position in the south of Africa, creating by far the most advanced nation in the continent on the bankroll of Libirachi grants and loans. However, with this new power came political foes, and the Socialist Unity party formed a broad political coalition under Alpha Cantorsta which managed to unseat Ramaphosa at the 2030 Ducist Presidential Election, forcing him to concede victory to the Socialist Unity party with Cantorsta at its head.

Unwilling to led power slip away from his grasp, Cyril Ramaphosa put together a coup force to oust president-elect Alpha Cantorsta, using his friendship with General Idi Amin to orchestrate a plot to rid Ducist of a new present. Firing his cabinet and vice president on September 10, 2030 and replacing them with interim members of cabinet, Ramaphosa effectively toppled the chain of succession in preparation of an attack on the new president. Formally handing off power at Noon on October 1, 2030, Ramaphosa was on the stage for the assassination of Cantorsta, just as the president-elect was in the process of taking the oath of office, leading to sheer chaos as the crowd scattered. With General Amin taking power as President, Ramaphosa was appointed as Prime Minister of a transitional council on October 5 and would take back his office as president the following January.

## History

Born in the first year of the South African Civil War, Cyril Ramaphosa grew up for the first four years of his life in war, loosing an uncle to the South African army in 1975; with Nelson Mandela's proclamation of the Federation of Ducist in February 1977, Ramaphosa's life took a substantial uptake in living quality, with new reforms and laws being put into place in order to preserve the freedoms of the Black majority within the new nation so that apartheid could never return. Attending school in Pretoria, Ramaphosa graduated from university in 1994 with degrees in politics, entering the Senate in 1998 as the youngest senator and as a member of President Mandela's governing party, Ascendency.

Following the assassination of Nelson Mandela in 1999, Cyril Ramaphosa became a junior minister within the government of Thabo Mbeki and would later serve in the second Mbeki government too between 2010 and 2015, before returning to the back benches in 2015 after loosing a leadership election to Filipe Nyusi, who would later bring Ramaphosa back into government in 2020 as the Defence Minister before moving him once again into the foreign office at the start of the Libirachi Civil War as part of President Nyusi's ambition to side with the Confederacy of Independent Nations in said conflict, sending out Ramaphosa as an envoy to try and court the attention of confederate leader Almac Docu, who for the most part ignored Nyusi and Ramaphosa due to Ducist not being within the Libirachi sphere of influence. However, after supporting the CIN in the Battle of the Pacific, the Libirachi Empire funded a political coalition which voted President Nyusi out of office and replaced him with Vice President João Lourenço in November 2024, allowing Cyril Ramaphosa to secure the leadership of Ascendency and sweep to office for his first term in the 2025 Ducist Presidential Election.

In 2030, the Socialist Unity party formed a broad political coalition under Alpha Cantorsta which managed to unseat Ramaphosa at the 2030 Ducist Presidential Election, forcing him to concede victory to the Socialist Unity party with Cantorsta at its head. Unwilling to led power slip away from his grasp, Cyril Ramaphosa put together a coup force to oust president-elect Alpha Cantorsta, using his friendship with General Idi Amin to orchestrate a plot to rid Ducist of a new present. Firing his cabinet and vice president on September 10, 2030 and replacing them with interim members of cabinet, Ramaphosa effectively toppled the chain of succession in preparation of an attack on the new president. Formally handing off power at Noon on October 1, 2030, Ramaphosa was on the stage for the assassination of Cantorsta, just as the president-elect was in the process of taking the oath of office, leading to sheer chaos as the crowd scattered. With General Amin taking power as President, Ramaphosa was appointed as Prime Minister of a transitional council on October 5 and would take back his office as president the following January.

## Presidencies

 Vice President

Taking office in October 2025, Cyril Ramaphosa inherited a nation with brewing civil tensions and began to enact a slew of aggressive policies to strengthen Ducistian boarders and increase the army, expanding into neighbouring nations to bring them into the Federation of Ducist, earning him the ire of the United States of America and Dunsteen, who attempted to block the annexations through the United Nations, although with a veto from the Libirachi Empire, the motion failed. Subsequently, with the backing of Libirachi Empress Penny Fox, Cyril Ramaphosa was able to consolidate his position in the south of Africa, creating by far the most advanced nation in the continent on the bankroll of Libirachi grants and loans. However, with this new power came political foes, and the Socialist Unity party formed a broad political coalition under Alpha Cantorsta which managed to unseat Ramaphosa at the 2030 Ducist Presidential Election, forcing him to concede victory to the Socialist Unity party with Cantorsta at its head.

Unwilling to led power slip away from his grasp, Cyril Ramaphosa put together a coup force to oust president-elect Alpha Cantorsta, using his friendship with General Idi Amin to orchestrate a plot to rid Ducist of a new present. Firing his cabinet and vice president on September 10, 2030 and replacing them with interim members of cabinet, Ramaphosa effectively toppled the chain of succession in preparation of an attack on the new president. Formally handing off power at Noon on October 1, 2030, Ramaphosa was on the stage for the assassination of Cantorsta, just as the president-elect was in the process of taking the oath of office, leading to sheer chaos as the crowd scattered. With General Amin taking power as President, Ramaphosa was appointed as Prime Minister of a transitional council on October 5 and would take back his office as president the following January.

Returning to power with a vengeance, Cyril Ramaphosa began to attack the very fabrics of the democracy he led and within a year had dismantled many institutions and checks on his power in order to rule virtually unopposed, with his vice president Saara Amadhila heading up the Council of the People which served as a replacement to the National Assembly of Ducist which remained shut following the 2030-31 Ducist Constitutional Crisis and the presidency of General Idi Amin, which Ramaphosa is widely regarded as having led behind the scenes. Virtually unopposed in his leadership, President Ramaphosa began to ally himself closer to the Libirachi Empire and the Persian Republic in Asia, both of which were dictatorial regimes akin to his administration in Ducist, and the pair began to bankroll Ramaphosa's expansions into Africa, securing the willing ascension of Cameroon into the Federation of Ducist in 2032, a large political success for the regime. Despite his support from Libirachi and Persian backers, Ramaphosa refused to ally with their puppet state of the United Arab Republic right up until a Bovido Imperium invasion of Africa led to a risk to Ducist's sovereignty in 2033, forcing Ramaphosa to join into the Conquest of Africa and forge war against the Bovido Imperium, securing backing from his Asian allies but also the free state of Canto Haven on the coast of Lake Victoria.

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