Ramaphosa attends inauguration ceremony of Mnangagwa

Phuti Mosomane

President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Monday attend the inauguration of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnagagwa after the opposition party – Nelson Chamisa’s Citizens Coalition for Change – failed to launch a court challenge to the election outcome.

The presidential inauguration ceremony will take place at the National Stadium in the capital city Harare. 

Mnangagwa, secured a second five-year term in the results announced last week on Saturday which mark a 43-year rule by the ZANU-PF, which has been in power since 1980, following the end of white minority rule in the southern African country, formerly known as Rhodesia.

The 80-year-old Mnangagwa received more than 52% of the vote while the 43-year-old Chamisa received 44%. Initially, Chamisa rejected the results but his failure to officially lodge a court challenge paved the way for Mnangagwa to be inaugurated on Monday. 

Last week, Ramaphosa ‘congratulated the government and the people of The