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September 25, 2008

Kgalema Motlanthe Sworn In as South Africa's President

(VOA) South Africa's parliament has elected African National Congress deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe as the third post-apartheid president of the country. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our Johannesburg bureau, the new president made it clear he did not intend to deviate from the former president's policies.

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