South Africa: Zuma promises to boost economy

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday that economic growth in the continent’s most advanced economy would be the focus of his second term, as he was inaugurated in the nation’s capital, Pretoria. The national development plan, would be the major engine of radical socio-economic change, said Zuma. “It’s time for us to do what we have always said we would, do not be alarmed when we take decisions that are hard and unusual, we will be doing it for your good,” he told thousands of supporters gathered in Pretoria, speaking in his native Zulu. The inauguration was attended by world leaders at the Union Buildings where Zuma, 72, was sworn in by the chief justice of the Constitutional Court.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 25^th, 2014.

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