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There that is good or live on air were streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and that aljazeera dot com thanks for joining us so a new president for south Africa Cyril Ramaphosa takes charge after much drama as well as defiance by the man who held the post for nine years from a post so was elected leader of the governing a. N. C. Party back in december replacing jacob zuma who resigned on wednesday zuma had faced years if allegations of corruption and only stepped down after intense pressure from his party well ahead of from a post as appointments more drama played out in parliament the far left Economic Freedom fighters party staged a walkout the leader there he is Julius Malema said his party would not take part in the election off the new president s matheson is live for us in Johannesburg South korea saying it was a lively debate that took place and in parliament but just look ahead for us for a moment rob because we understand the new president is going to be sworn in in this hour. Thats right its going to take place in a building called the tane hayes here in johannesburg and thats more of just a formality the Main Business of the day the creation of sit around the forza as the president elect of south africa happened in the National Assembly a few hours ago so all that there is going to happen at the dinner he said basically a rubber stamp if you like of the fact that he was now the president the fifth democratically elected president of south africa when that announcement was made in the National Assembly a few hours ago there was dancing and singing and cheering amongst many of the parliamentarians and when settled on the forza spoke to south africa for the first time as its president elect he said he was going to do the job with the to the best of his ability he was going to do it with humility faithfulness and with dignity and he also said that one of the first things that he planned to do was pull together all the opposition parties to try to discuss the best way of moving south africa forward from the zuma ministration and at that point i think we began to see evidence of the first hurdle that settled on a force that is going to face as president of south africa several of the democrats several of the opposition parties stood up and said that they welcome the fact that his he had no been created given this post but the problem was not with the opposition parties they said the problem lay within the a. N. C. The opposition parties were saying that they had been telling the ramaphosa and others that the a n c was the problem for ten years they had been warning about jacob zuma was spending allegations of fraud and the controller say that have been surrounding him and his administration for ten years whilst several ramaphosa had been zoomers deputy they said during that time absolutely nothing had been done they had. Motions to try to to oust is zuma and the a. N. C. Have blocked it so its very obvious that ramaphosa has got a big job on his hands to put to persuade people not only that in the opposition that he is determined to move south africa forward and to be transparent in his dealings but he also has a very big job where he has to come to deal with the corruption issues that were faced in the air and sea and he addressed the subject when he was making his speech the issues that you have raised issues that have to do with corruption issues of how we can straighten out our state owned enterprises and how we do with state kept. Issues that are on i want to be discreet those are issues that were going to be addressing and tomorrow we will also have an opportunity to outline some of the steps that we are going to be taking pretty astounding rob the just this is all taking place in less than twenty four hours since jacob zuma resigned what is the mood like there. Generally speaking the mood seems to be very positive there are people of course who are supporters of jacob zuma who believe he should not step down at least he should have been allowed to carry on until the full length of his term generally speaking in the time that ive been here in johannesburg and speaking to a few people it sounds very much though as though this is regarded as a very positive step but of course one of the phrases that was regularly used to me when i was talking to people is time will tell ok rob matheson reporting from johannesburg thank you well several rounds of posts i will face a range of challenges as rob was saying including high unemployment and widespread violence on the streets he also has to face the people in just one year with elections set for twenty one thousand election obrien has more of the republic of south africa. Before becoming the new leader of south Africa Cyril Ramaphosa was seen as the chief negotiator in the final days of jacob zuma as presidency he was elected president of the governing African National congress in december by a slim margin after work to unite his divided party hell also have to repair the political and economic damage suffered under zuma and improve the partys image after years of allegations of corruption. So the reporter is a different kind of president to anything weve had before this is a modernist this is somebody hes a negotiator hes a reconsolidate as well but heres a man of a very clear determined purpose he has stuck with jacob zuma for how many years sitting by as zuma embarrassed the country embarrassed himself and thats. Going along with what had happened in south africa has given the impression that. I dont think he is. But rahm opposer remains tainted by criticism over his involvement in american a killing in which police shot and killed thirty four striking miners six years ago as a board member of one of the Largest Mining Companies in south africa at the time ram opposer was accused of being behind the governments decision to break the strike he later apologized saying he had stepped in to prevent further deaths. As a politician turned businessman rahm opposer enjoys the confidence of the Financial Sector and unemployment rose the current c. N. N. Faced a confidence weakened and the countrys Credit Rating went down south africas new leader has said he plans to create jobs and a season Economic Growth target of three percent for this year thats more than double the right predicted by the International Monetary fund during the last election support for the a. N. C. Fell to sixty two percent many hope the posse of Nelson Mandela will be able to reverse this trained under the leadership of rahm opposer alexia brian al jazeera. Lets bring in our social media producer anderson poets a conversation online to the story well theres a lot of people that weve been talking about talking to rather over the past few days weve been speaking to many South Africans across the country and theres weve seen a lot of hashtags really focused on jacob zuma celebrating the fact that hes left office and its really came as a relief now lets take a listen to some of our viewers to see what they had to say basically. Mum did that in the c. E. Needs elective conferences taken. Economy transformation what the new president needs to do to make sure that it tickled that the most important thing which is unemployment you know weve got so many youth sitting with diplomas to greece qualifications you know and im employed what i look forward to seeing with the change of the Union Presidency from two clubs a lot to sort of opposing is that really in statement of the integrity of the state of key institutions such as our Revenue Services all persecuted prosecute to authority and our Financial Sector now many agree that fighting corruption turning around the economy and ensuring Free Education are very important things but others say everyone who collaborated with the former president must also resign heres why now that jacob zuma has resigned and if the office is basically just get rid of all the people that shouldnt get golden handshake with him all of that apples and they should leave and. Resign office to once this happens i think our economy will strengthen and that will lead to job creation and this will also lead to Better Things in south africa if we have better confidence in our leaders and well be able to trust them more and with everything thats happened over the past few years we wanted to know how south South Africans see their country the countrys future moving ahead take a listen. The future of south africa is extremely extremely bright i think that this event shows that corruption will not go without being checked and as ordinary South Africans we really just need to learn to be more accountable to ourselves and to our leaders just our community we cannot allow for corruption to become a culture in our country and as people we just need to consistently crack down on it and have a zero tolerance for it i think thats what we can do and if we continue to do that our countrys potential is just skyrocket through the roof now are you in south africa then we want to hear from you do get in touch with us using the hash tag eighteen is good and to thank you well Chris Landsberg is the chairman of the african diplomacy and Foreign Policy with the university of johannesburg is joining us now from there thanks for speaking to us on the news grid so is that ramaphosa the man to speak to all constituencies unite them all. Well i mean after all that easy style. Of unease and i dont mean it in a derogatory sense you know theres something trump ian about him in the sense that hes a transactional leader he loves to negotiate hes very comfortable negotiating i go and i can almost see him reaching out and doing well on on on the first school where the on the other hand hes able to face three members tasks to mention by a correspondent. Of the one hes get all the opposition on the side and make promises to them. Address the issue of corruption but above all else how does this man go and bowl together a deeply fractious i see because i dont think weve seen the aftermath yet all the recall of jacob zuma i said i believe that zuma is basically going to not tell theres a bit of anger there and whether sort of a pause of good will to do all of these things remains to be seen whether there is an election for the a. N. C. Is popularity which has been dented over the past i said a few years under jacob zuma. But absolutely and and theres also a view for example that he was very quiet while nine. Eight motions of no confidence will pass against president zuma theres a sense in which they all stood idly by maybe even condoned it in the mains a popular man but man i just think of this honeymoon that he finds himself in right now is going to be a very short lived honeymoon and then its going to be tested. Let me ask you this in fact this is one of our questions coming on it coming into us on our facebook see the revolution this viewer saying the revolution for change is going across africa with south africa ethiopia he is referring to the resignation of the Prime Minister that just happened earlier today and there was more to come do you share this point of view well i mean whether it is all of a whether its a revolution is another matter but there certainly is a confluence of events throughout the continent and certainly in Southern Africa just look at the ball to suspend him bob were just five months ago Robert Mugabe was in charge he is no more we just saw the sub and said death of Opposition LeaderMorgan Tsvangirai theres the rumblings in mozambique there are issues. You know of a changes in south africa so the certainly a confluence of tumultuous events but whether they all want to certainly end up in a positive direction remains to be seen how i have my doubts some will some wont ok very good to get your thoughts thank you for joining us from johannesburg itself and we will take you to cape town now thats where the south africas newly elected president Cyril Ramaphosa is being sworn in lets Listen Program director general in the presidency dr livesey. Excellency the president elect of the republic. Spica distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen it is a great honor and privilege. To invite that president elect of the republic of south africa to take an oath of office so i have to carry out best. Yaks lens is it going to be an old thought and i formation oh. Maybe we should cross a finishing of heads say i swear i am offended yes to avoid confusion. Would you please rise mr president elect and say after me. Ok. Lets commands in the presence of everyone assembled here and every one of them and in full realisation of the high calling i assume and be under station high cording i ask you as president of the republic of south africa as president of the republic or sold off because i. Might it off. Or stop somewhere that will be faithful to their republic of south africa so were. Bringing to the republic. And willow bay. Really. Further. Our whole. Situation and the constitution and all of the law of the republic and. Bob. And i was suddenly and seen see a leap promise and eyes and the promise that i will always are i will always promote all that will advance that in public promote all of on every public and all post all that may harm it or hold of me but tet and promote that i of all South Africans protect and promote the rise of ores of africa and discharge my jew tees with all my strength this charge my duty with all of my strength and talents to the best of my knowledge and talents to the best of my knowledge and ability and of belittling and killed to that did take of my calling she says and true to the dictates of my core and do justice to all do justice to all and devote myself to the well being of the republic and do justice to the word being of very probably. And all of these people all. Would you please raise what i ten. As the president elect and see civil. So there you have it live from cape town cyril around from around. The man sworn in as south africas president this just a day after jacob zuma resigned was the only candidate nominated in parliament that happened on thursday so there was no vote that was needed to make him president but there are the live pictures coming from cape town where a serial rama post has now taken the oath off office as south africas president speaking of jacob zuma though what will his legacy be so aljazeera spoke to South Africans in the eastern port city of durban and asked how they would remember their former president this is an interesting and opposing piece with opposing viewpoints in excuse me in this articles jacob zuma peoples a president or a corrupt demigod youll find it on the home page of al jazeera dot com and were going to getting a lot of interest on this particular story so do keep sending in your comments and questions to us here at the newsgroup you can connect with us were on Facebook Live thats facebook dot com slash a. J. News good were also on twitter our handle is at aging goods just use the news grid and you can send us a whatsapp or a telegram at plus nine seven four five zero one four nine. Now staying in the continent and ethiopias Prime Minister highly disciplined has suddenly resigned in a televised address he said that his resignation was important to carry out reforms and he wants to be part of the solution if you see months of antigovernment protests in which hundreds of people have been killed and thousands detained but in recent weeks the government did release more than six thousand opposition figures and journalists how the merriam took office in twenty twelve of those joining us here in the studio to talk about this resignation was it a surprise or what is expect was that expected. Well that in from the moment tyler made him descend into power in two thousand and twelve september this movement has always been on the cards he was largely seen as a please hold consensus figure of sorts to replace former Prime Minister. Melissa now he who died in august two thousand and twelve we of course is the month seen as a protector of ethiopias boom and must have developed a project now i remember silent comes from the southern part of the country from realty obscurities and the demick was an academic then joined regional politics and rules to become the president of the Southern State and then was topped by militias and how he when he wanted to bring in technocrats into the government and appointed him foreign minister and his deputy. At the time when people say melissa now himself was very much aware of his health condition. So his little been seen as a consensus figure but he was not meant to last on the job but the riots and the unrest because gripped the country for the