Most significant positive evidence
The strongest positive evidence concerns restoration of state institutions, recovery of stolen assets, social protection and a generally constitutional style of leadership.
Person
Cyril Ramaphosa
The assessment covers efforts to repair state capture, anti-corruption institutions, social protection, electricity and infrastructure reform, unemployment, violent crime and slow accountability.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
+10.52
Reasoned summary
Ramaphosa improved institutional direction after state capture and preserved constitutional government. The benefits are substantially weakened by slow implementation, continuing corruption and the state's failure to protect people from unemployment, crime and failing services.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
The score is reduced by persistent corruption, unemployment, infrastructure failure, violent crime and the slow conversion of commissions and promises into accountability.
Read the full Cyril Ramaphosa ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- +25.00
- Rights and dignity
- +7.36
- Nonviolence and harm
- +0.00
- Stewardship of power
- +5.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- +15.37
- Consequential legacy
- +10.36
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Cyril Ramaphosa (2018–2026)
2018–2026 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile