JOHANNESBURG – Parliament elected Cyril Ramaphosa as President on Thursday afternoon.

The National Assembly will today @14:00 sit to elect the new President of the Republic of SA

— Parliament of RSA (@ParliamentofRSA) February 15, 2018

According to expectations, the President will be sworn in at 5pm on Thursday. 

ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu told a parliamentary committee meeting that the office of the chief justice has made itself available to officiate in the business of electing a new president.

The election will make way for the State of the Nation Address to be delivered on Friday.

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