Zuma Loyalist Will Become South African President

Motlanthe will serve as caretaker ahead of 2009 elections

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 22, 2008 8:34 AM CDT

(Newser) – The African National Congress has chosen Kgalema Motlanthe, a moderate intellectual and the ruling party's No. 2, to be South Africa's caretaker president, Reuters reports. He will fill the job vacated by Thabo Mbeki, who resigned this weekend after the party demanded he step down.... Read full story »

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