President Cyril Ramaphosa faces herculean tasks after he gets down to work after Saturday's inauguration.
South Africa has the most advanced infrastructure in the continent, but its commodities-dependent economy has been in a slump for a decade.
In 2017, two of the world's leading ratings agencies S&P Global and Fitch downgraded the country to sub-investment levels. Despite the emergence of a black middle class, 20-percent of black households live in extreme poverty, against 2.9-percent for white households, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Zuma himself is facing trial for alleged corruption relating to a multi-billion-dollar arms deal in the 1990s. He has to balance pressure from the ANC's left and the EFF for expropriation with the need to avoid Zimbabwean-style evictions that would be economically ruinous.
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