Cyril Ramaphosa warned of ‘toxic cleavages’ during his inauguration ceremony as he was sworn in for a second term as South Africa’s president.
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Speaking in Pretoria on Wednesday, Ramaphosa said South Africa remains ‘deeply unequal and highly polarised’.
‘The lines drawn by our history and our past, between black and white, between man and woman, between suburbs and townships, between urban and rural, between the wealthy and the poor, remain still deeply etched in our landscape,’ he said.
He called on political leaders to put the ‘needs and aspirations’ of the public first and end ‘political bickering’.
Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority in parliament for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994 in this year’s election. The ANC has agreed a governance pact with its political rival the Democratic Alliance.
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