Charles Molele
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday called on business, labour and every patriotic South African to forge a compact to deal decisively with the current challenges of racial inequality, poverty and joblessness.
Ramaphosa was speaking during his presidential inauguration held at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium, where he was earlier sworn in as the country’s fifth democratic president by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.
“Let us – as we embark on this new era – mobilise our every resource and summon our every capability to realise the vision of our founding mothers and fathers,” Ramaphosa told thousands of South Africans gathered at the stadium to celebrate a new dawn and an era of hope.
“Let us forge a compact – not merely as business and labour, not as those who govern and those who are governed – but as citizens and patriots of this great nation, free and equal and resolute.
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