A bronze
bust of the anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is unveiled at Parliament
in Cape Town on Monday, 28 April 2014 as part of the celebrations of
20 years of democracy in South Africa.
South Africa’s fifth democratic Parliament
holds its first sitting on Wednesday morning to swear in new MPs and
formally elect President Jacob Zuma as head of state.
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng
will preside over the swearing in of the 400 new members of the National
Assembly — a process traditionally undertaken in batches of 10 for
speed’s sake.
Following this, the chamber will
elect a new Speaker. The African National Congress announced on Tuesday
that it will nominate Baleka Mbete, the party’s national chairwoman, to
return to the post of Speaker she held from 2004 to 2008.
Once elected, the Speaker will
preside over the election of the deputy speaker. The ANC plans to
nominate Lechesa Tsenoli for the post.
MPs will then elect the country’s new president, a post certain to go to Zuma for a second term.
He will take the oath of office
at the Union Buildings on Saturday, bringing foreign dignitaries back to
the capital for the inauguration five months after former president
Nelson Mandela lay in state here.
Zuma will announce his new Cabinet on Sunday.
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