Simon Nare
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected as president of the 7th administration with a resounding majority from the support of a coalition agreement by parties who have joined the call for a “government of national unity.”
Ramaphosa trounced EFF leader Julius Malema with an emphatic 283 to 44 votes in a contest Malema described as a move to send a message to the country that the ANC has betrayed the masses.
The ANC, after losing the majority in the house for the first time since the dawn of democracy only managed to garner 159 seats out of the 400 but with the support of 87 seats from the DA, 17 from the IFP 17 and 9 from the PA, there was really no contest as Malema’s EFF had only 39 seats.
But with the support of other small parties who are part of the newly -formed Progressive
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