SOUTH AFRICA: A NEW DAWN?

Abstract

The article analyses recent developments in South Africa after the non-voluntarily resignation Jacob Zuma and election of Cyril Ramaphosa to the post of President of the Republic. One of the key words in his “State of the Nation” report next day after his election were “New dawn”: “We should put all the negativity that has dogged our country behind us because a new dawn is upon us. We must leave behind all the negative that prevented our country, because there is a new dawn above us", he said. So the article evaluates the steps the new president took to keep his promise “to turn the country around”, and in particular to eradicate widespread corruption. A special attention is paid to the results of the May 2019 national and provincial elections in South Africa.