Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated as the president at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria on Saturday. Watch.
Ramaphosa urged South Africans to work together in creating "an efficient, capable and ethical state; a state that is free from corruption".
He said he wanted South Africa to be a country that "values excellence, rewards effort and hard work and rejects mediocrity."
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