Friday 16 February 2018

With a new president, a sense of optimism returns to South Africa.

Cyril Ramaphosa has pledged to draw line between his leadership of ANC and scandal-ridden Zuma years

There's something unnerving about the way the clouds can steal up to cover the top of Table Mountain before spilling over the edge and slipping down into Cape Town itself, shifting the mood of the city in the time it takes for a ray or two of sunlight to shine through.

The recent palace coup within the ruling African National Congress – and so South Africa – feels a little like that. As if the now departed President Jacob Zuma had disappeared behind a magician's cloak only to be replaced by Cyril Ramaphosa in a puff of smoke and carrying with him a long missing sense of optimism in this country.

Ramaphosa was sworn in as South Africa's fifth post-apartheid president on Thursday after being voted in by the National Assembly, where the ANC has a majority, less than 24 hours after Zuma was forced to resign.
And the mood has indeed shifted.


Full story at CBC.

By Margaret Evans.

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