{"id":76219,"date":"2024-06-19T07:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T07:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/as-president-takes-oath-4-challenges-for-south-africas-new-government\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T07:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T07:16:06","slug":"as-president-takes-oath-4-challenges-for-south-africas-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/as-president-takes-oath-4-challenges-for-south-africas-new-government\/","title":{"rendered":"As President Takes Oath, 4 Challenges for South Africa\u2019s New Government"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa is scheduled to be sworn in on Wednesday for a second term, launching an administration that will be unlike any the country has experienced since apartheid ended in 1994.<\/p>\n

For the first time, Mr. Ramaphosa\u2019s party, the African National Congress, or A.N.C., will have to govern in partnership with rival political parties because it failed to win an absolute majority<\/a> in last month\u2019s election \u2014 getting just 40 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ramaphosa has touted a new era of unity<\/a> and collaboration. Not everyone is sold.<\/p>\n

The partnership includes the second-largest party, the Democratic Alliance, which got 22 percent of the vote and has long positioned itself as the fiercest of the A.N.C.\u2019s critics. The three other parties that have joined the coalition each won less than 4 percent of the vote: the Inkatha Freedom Party, the Patriotic Alliance and GOOD. <\/p>\n

A statement of basic principles \u2014 for what the parties are calling a \u201cgovernment of national unity\u201d \u2014 signed by the five coalition partners includes their policy priorities. But the document is light on specifics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n