{"id":542,"date":"2014-05-25T16:21:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/2014\/05\/25\/zuma-sworn-in-for-second-term-as-president\/"},"modified":"2014-05-25T16:21:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T16:21:58","slug":"zuma-sworn-in-for-second-term-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/zuma-sworn-in-for-second-term-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuma sworn in for second term as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><span class=\"source\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-541\" src=\"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jocob_zuma.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"452\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pretoria &#8211; President <a class=\"tips\" href=\"http:\/\/whoswho.co.za\/jacob-zuma-927\" rel=\"\/Handlers\/WhosWhoTooltip.ashx?url=http:\/\/www.Whoswho.co.za\/hover.php?uid=927\">Jacob Zuma<\/a> took his oath of office for a second term at around 11:35 at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p \/>He was led by Chief Justice <a class=\"tips\" href=\"http:\/\/whoswho.co.za\/mogoeng-mogoeng-7577\" rel=\"\/Handlers\/WhosWhoTooltip.ashx?url=http:\/\/www.Whoswho.co.za\/hover.php?uid=7577\">Mogoeng Mogoeng<\/a>.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In  the presence of everyone assembled here and in full realisation of the  high calling I assume as president of the Republic of South Africa, I  Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma swear that I will be faithful to the Republic  of South Africa and will obey, observe, uphold, and maintain the  Constitution and all other law[s] of the republic&#8230;&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I  solemnly and sincerely promise that I will always promote all that will  advance the Republic and oppose all that may harm it.&#8221; There was a loud  cheer after Zuma said &#8220;so help me God&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mogoeng then asked Zuma to sign a certificate while placing his hand on a Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Mogoeng then congratulated him.<\/p>\n<div id=\"accreditationName\">&#8211; SAPA<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria &#8211; President Jacob Zuma took his oath of office for a second term at&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}