South African president begins 2nd term

The African National Congress lost its majority grip on power in South Africa’s recent national elections. It was a humbling defeat, but on Wednesday,  after weeks of political wrangling , the party’s leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, was sworn into another term as president. The World’s Halima Gikandi reports on how this happened and what this means for South African politics going forward.

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