Africa: South Africa Gets a Second Chance - Malema Is Worried

Ramaphosa's presidency has potential to revive the ANC and reshape the opposition political landscape.

Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) walked out when Cyril Ramaphosa was hastily sworn in by the Chief Justice on the 15 February. Spoiling that cheerful hour must have clearly backfired with the citizenry and the EFF MPs returned meekly to the president's State of the Nation Address the following evening, not disrupting it even once. South Africans want their parliament restored to the dignity of the Mandela years.

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