As Rhamphosa Hails a ‘New Dawn,’ South Africans See More of the Same<br />So what can you expect from that?" "I keep thinking it might change, it might change, let me give him some time — but there’s no change," she said, adding with a laugh, "I’m a strong fighter." Lebo Ngema, who came to the mall with her three children, said<br />that the political change "really doesn’t have that much impact on me.<br />Jacob Zuma said that I don’t think changing President Zuma will change anything,<br />A few days after threatening to remove Mr. Zuma through a humiliating no-confidence vote in Parliament, Mr. Ramaphosa thanked Mr. Zuma for his service "during which the country made significant progress<br />in several areas of development." In South Africa, the state of the nation address has become an extravagant annual party for the governing class, a mixture of politics and entertainment.<br />Parliament officials said that about $370,000 was budgeted for this year’s address, though<br />opposition officials have said that the real cost was nearly three times as much.<br />Mr. Ramaphosa is "the same as Zuma," she said, adding, "They’ve been together for quite a long time.<br />17, 2018<br />SOWETO, South Africa — Refiloe Mapanya had closely followed the tumultuous changes in South Africa’s leadership in recent days:<br />a political knife fight inside the long-governing African National Congress that brought to power President Cyril Ramaphosa.
