Cyril Ramaphosa Sworn In As President Of South Africa For Second Term

• On Wednesday, 19 June 2024 Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa was inaugurated as the president of South Africa
• The president was inaugurated at the Union Buildings in Tshwane, Gauteng by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo in the Nelson Mandela Amphitheatre
• Ramaphosa will now serve his second term as the South African president following Jacob Zuma's resignation in 2018

There was no doubt about the stupendous election result, nor the occasion that it brought as Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa rose to the apex of the seventh administration on Wednesday, 19 June — signalling a new era for South Africa’s democratic dispensation.

That would have been foremost in his mind as Ramaphosa — in for a second term in the presidential hot seat, having scored a mammoth victory against the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema — as he raised his right hand to take the oath of office in front of millions of citizens.

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Hush fell over the Union Gardens at the seat of power at the same time as the rest of the world watched on.

Swearing him in as head of state at the Nelson Mandela Amphitheatre for the next five years was Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.

It was the same Zondo, who chaired the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, finalised the marathon sitting and handed a bound dossier to Ramaphosa.

And, as for the president himself, the grey cloud of corruption suspicion that accompanied him to inauguration day, he would hope it stays at bay after another panel chaired by former Constitutional Court Judge Sandile Ngcobo found he had a case to answer.

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Source: Briefly.co.za