Ramaphosa is inaugurated after the ANC’s election defeat

Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for a second presidential term after the National Assembly re-elected him on 14 June with support from parties in the new governing arrangement. The inauguration marked the start of coalition-era national government, following the ANC’s loss of its majority. The transition showed how parliamentary negotiation could preserve ANC leadership of the executive while forcing it to share power and respond to the electorate’s diminished mandate.