Motlanthe takes oath as S African President
September 25, 2008 CAPE TOWN (AFP) - The deputy leader of South Africa’s ruling party, Kgalema Motlanthe, was sworn in Thursday as the nation’s third president since the end of apartheid, following a bruising internal power struggle.
Motlanthe won 269 of the 360 votes cast in a secret ballot and gave his oath of office before the chief justice of the constitutional court Pius Langa, shortly after winning election in parliament.
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