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Ramaphosa promised that the new government would create new work opportunities to face the crippling unemployment as well as work on providing people with basic services like housing, healthcare, and clean water
Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for a second term as South Africa’s president on Wednesday. Ramaphosa is now set to appoint a Cabinet in a new coalition government after his African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in an election last month. He was re-elected president by lawmakers after the main opposition party and a smaller third party joined the ANC in an agreement to co-govern Africa’s most industrialized economy.
He will have to guide the first coalition government in which no party has a majority. At least three parties will make up what the ANC is calling a government of national unity, with more invited to join.
Ramaphosa was administered the oath of office in a public ceremony at the Union Buildings, the seat of government, by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. King Mswati III of Eswatini, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, Zimbabwe President Emerson Mnangagwa and former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga were among many dignitaries who attended the inauguration ceremony as Ramaphosa begins what promises to be a tough final term in office.
Ramaphosa promised that the new government would create new work opportunities to face the crippling unemployment as well as work on providing people with basic services like housing, healthcare, and clean water.
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Major players such as the Democratic Alliance and the Inkatha Freedom Party have already joined the coalition, and others like the Patriotic Alliance, the GOOD Party, and the Pan Africanist Congress are expected to follow. The third largest party, led by former President Jacob Zuma, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party, and the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters party have refused to be part of it.
