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Interim Prez Takes Reins in South Africa

Motlanthe viewed as able to ease tensions within ruling party

By Ambreen Ali, Newser User

Posted Sep 25, 2008 11:30 AM CDT

(Newser) – Kgalema Motlanthe was sworn in as South Africa’s caretaker president today after winning three-quarters of a parliamentary ballot, the BBC reports. The left-leaning intellectual is seen as someone who can ease rifts between supporters of Jacob Zuma, head of the African National Congress party... Read full story »

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