{"id":28428,"date":"2018-02-15T15:04:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T14:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/15\/cyril-ramaphosa-declared-president-of-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T15:04:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T14:04:32","slug":"cyril-ramaphosa-declared-president-of-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=28428","title":{"rendered":"Cyril Ramaphosa declared president of South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former anti-apartheid activist turned businessman replaces Jacob Zuma, who dramatically resigned on Wednesday nightCyril Ramaphosa has been elected president of South Africa by a parliamentary vote less than 16 hours after the resignation of his rival Jacob Zuma, following days of defiant refusal to leave office.The appointment of Ramaphosa \u2013 who, as deputy president, became interim leader immediately after Zuma\u2019s late-night resignation on Wednesday \u2013 as head of state was announced by South Africa\u2019s chief justice in Cape Town who presided over the vote. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/feb\/15\/cyril-ramaphosa-to-be-elected-president-of-south-africa-jacob-zuma\" target=\"_blank\">Cyril Ramaphosa declared president of South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former anti-apartheid activist turned businessman replaces Jacob Zuma, who dramatically resigned on Wednesday nightCyril Ramaphosa has been elected president of South Africa by a parliamentary vote less than 16 hours after the resignation of his rival Jacob Zuma, following days of defiant refusal to leave office.The appointment of Ramaphosa \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}