In South Africa, African National Congress leader Cyril Ramaphosa has been confirmed as the new president, after the former leader, President Jacob Zuma, resigned from office abruptly on Wednesday night amid a series of corruption scandals. This is Cyril Ramaphosa, speaking Thursday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa: “The issues that you have raised, issues that have to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises and how we deal with state capture, are issues that are on our radar screen. Those are issues that we’re going to be addressing.”

Cyril Ramaphosa once led the National Union of Mineworkers under apartheid in the 1980s and later became one of Africa’s richest men as he built a business empire that included mining interests. Later in the broadcast, we’ll go to Johannesburg, South Africa, to speak with activist Koketso Moeti about South Africa’s change in leadership.