Finally: Jacob Zuma bows to pressure as Cyril Ramaphosa takes over as South Africa's president

Finally: Jacob Zuma bows to pressure as Cyril Ramaphosa takes over as South Africa's president

Finally,  South African President, Jacob Zuma, has been booted out of office after series of meeting by ANC, the political party that bought him into power.  Zuma willingly resigned following diverse of allegations leveled against him by the citizens of South Africa which ranges from corruption charges, to increase in unemployment rate in the country.

Zuma has spent 2 terms in power has the president of South Africa and was at the end of his second term before his removal.

Following the removal of Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa has been appointed as the new president of South Africa.

South African parliament with a population of 400-member is dominated by the ruling African National Congress party (ANC), the body elected Ramaphosa and his mandate is to finish Zuma's term which is expected to end next year while proper elections is also to hold in 2019.

After the reign of white-minority in South Africa in 1994, the ANC has become the country's formidable party as it always becomes first in every nation wide vote.

Back in December, Ramaphosa almost defeated Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in the election to take over from South African President
Jacob Zuma as the national leader of the ANC.

A little check into the history of Ramaphosa showed he is 65 years old and was born in 1952 in a town called Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg city centre. He is a lawyer by profession and he graduated from the University of the North at Turfloop.