CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Inclusive economic growth will be top of the new South African government’s agenda, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in an address to parliament on Thursday.
The speech marked the official opening of a new five-year term of parliament, after a May election in which Ramaphosa’s African National Congress lost its majority for the first time in 30 years and was forced to bring opposition parties into government.
Ramaphosa said the coalition government would continue programmes that encourage economic empowerment of Black South Africans and pursue massive infrastructure investment, as it tries to reignite economic growth after a decade of stagnation.
(Reporting by Wendell Roelf and Nellie Peyton; Writing by Tannur Anders and Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Alexander Winning)