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Cyril Ramaphosa, head of the ruling African National Congress, ANC, has been sworn in as South Africa’s new President. He was elected as the new president of South Africa by the ruling party politicians after the resignation of Jacob Zuma.
The country’s 400-member parliament, dominated by the ruling African National Congress Party (ANC), elected Ramaphosa yesterday to finish his predecessor’s term, which ends with elections in 2019. The ANC has finished first in every national vote since the end of white-minority rule in 1994.
The Economic Freedom Fighters Party (EFF), the country’s leading opposition party, walked out of the parliament session before the vote, calling the election by the ANC as illegitimate. 65-year-old Ramaphosa became country’s deputy President in 2014.
In December last year, he narrowly defeated Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in the race to replace South African President Jacob Zuma as the head of the party. Mr Ramaphosa said in his speech in Parliament, shortly after his election yesterday, that he will try hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.
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