# The National Assembly elects Ramaphosa president after Zuma resigns

Date: 2018

## The fact

On 15 February 2018, the day after [Jacob Zuma](/people/jacob-zuma) resigned, the [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) elected [Cyril Ramaphosa](/people/cyril-ramaphosa) president of South Africa. State-capture repair is later rows, not this hour’s unique coefficient.

## Context

18 December 2017 ANC presidency sat as parent. Neighbouring 2019 general election is a child. He did not sit as every Zuma-era SOE.

2019 election is a child. Marikana 2012 is a parent career file.

The President of South Africa heads the national executive, appoints Cabinet, and assents to bills. He does not write an Eskom generation print, an NPA charging decision, a DA court challenge, or a US executive order by himself. Phala Phala cash in a sofa is not a completed criminal verdict unless a court so holds.

## Evidence and sources

The Presidency of South Africa carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed peaceful 2018 rotation after a resignation.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 15 February 2018 Assembly election, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later SOE-repair coefficient from that Thursday, or that Zuma-era capture thereby ended that hour.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Zuma had resigned. He took the oath.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The National Assembly elects Ramaphosa president after Zuma resigns, not a later speech about The National Assembly elects Ramaphosa president after Zuma resigns.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The National Assembly elects Ramaphosa president after Zuma resigns on 2018-02-15 is not a licence to treat every later The Presidency of South Africa communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The National Assembly elects Ramaphosa president after Zuma resigns into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Assembly voted. Zuma had resigned. He took the oath. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Cyril Ramaphosa: https://factrail.ai/people/cyril-ramaphosa

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-politics-idUSKCN1FZ0N1
- https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/za-president-2018