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02-16-2018, 12:02 PM
CAPE TOWN: South Africa´s new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Thursday used his first speech in office to vow to fight government corruption, in a direct reference to accusations levelled against his predecessor Jacob Zuma.
?Issues to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises and how we deal with ´state capture´ are issues that are on our radar screen,? he told lawmakers in parliament. ?Those are issues we are going to be addressing and tomorrow we will also have an opportunity to outline some of the steps we are going to be taking,? said Ramaphosa, who got a standing ovation at the end of the speech. Meanwhile, South African police issued an arrest warrant for one of the brothers of the Gupta business family, allies of scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma, who was forced to resign as head of state. ?We spoke to his lawyers yesterday and we informed them that there is a warrant of arrest that had been issued against Ajay Gupta,? Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi, a spokesman for the elite police unit the Hawks, told AFP.Gupta is being sought in connection with state corruption. Earlier, lawmakers formally named wealthy former businessman Cyril Ramaphosa as new president Thursday after scandal-tainted Jacob Zuma resigned under intense pressure from his own party. Zuma announced his resignation late Wednesday, and aimed barbs at the African National Congress (ANC) party for vowing to oust him via a no-confidence vote in parliament.In a 30-minute televised address, Zuma said he had ?come to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect?. ?I have only asked my party to articulate my transgressions and the reason for its immediate instruction that I vacate office,? he said. Zuma, 75, had been embroiled in a divisive power struggle with Ramaphosa, the deputy president. Ramaphosa won control of the ANC when he was elected as its head in December.
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?Issues to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises and how we deal with ´state capture´ are issues that are on our radar screen,? he told lawmakers in parliament. ?Those are issues we are going to be addressing and tomorrow we will also have an opportunity to outline some of the steps we are going to be taking,? said Ramaphosa, who got a standing ovation at the end of the speech. Meanwhile, South African police issued an arrest warrant for one of the brothers of the Gupta business family, allies of scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma, who was forced to resign as head of state. ?We spoke to his lawyers yesterday and we informed them that there is a warrant of arrest that had been issued against Ajay Gupta,? Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi, a spokesman for the elite police unit the Hawks, told AFP.Gupta is being sought in connection with state corruption. Earlier, lawmakers formally named wealthy former businessman Cyril Ramaphosa as new president Thursday after scandal-tainted Jacob Zuma resigned under intense pressure from his own party. Zuma announced his resignation late Wednesday, and aimed barbs at the African National Congress (ANC) party for vowing to oust him via a no-confidence vote in parliament.In a 30-minute televised address, Zuma said he had ?come to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect?. ?I have only asked my party to articulate my transgressions and the reason for its immediate instruction that I vacate office,? he said. Zuma, 75, had been embroiled in a divisive power struggle with Ramaphosa, the deputy president. Ramaphosa won control of the ANC when he was elected as its head in December.
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