After the ANC retained a parliamentary majority in the 7 May general election, the new National Assembly re-elected ANC president Jacob Zuma as state president. In South Africa’s constitutional system, voters elect Parliament and MPs choose the president. The outcome connected the ANC’s electoral mandate to executive power, while debate continued over whether political representation had brought material change for communities affected by apartheid and colonial dispossession.
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Who elected Jacob Zuma to a second term as president in May 2014?
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MPs in the National Assembly re-elected Zuma as state president.