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class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eEnglish/NatThabo Mbeki became South Africa's second post-apartheid president on Wednesday, taking over leadership of a racially divided country from Nelson Mandela.He promised to improve the lives of millions of impoverished blacks.Mbeki...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eThabo Mbeki became South Africa's second post-apartheid president on Wednesday, taking over leadership of a racially divided country from Nelson Mandela.\u003cbr/\u003eHe promised to improve the lives of millions of impoverished blacks.\u003cbr/\u003eMbeki praised his predecessor for helping to rescue the country from apartheid and placing it on the \"pedestal of hope\".\u003cbr/\u003eHe said the transfer of power was a striking demonstration of democracy at work on a continent rife with dictators.    \u003cbr/\u003eFor some it was a sad day as they watched the retirement of the 80-year-old Mandela, a man beloved worldwide as a symbol of reconciliation and democracy.\u003cbr/\u003eThere was dancing in streets in Pretoria on Wednesday, prior to the swearing-in of Thabo Mbeki, the man who has succeeded Nelson Mandela as President. \u003cbr/\u003eMbeki is almost as well loved as his predecessor.\u003cbr/\u003eThe ceremony marked the first transfer of power in South Africa between two (all-race) democratically elected governments and recalled the inhumanity of apartheid. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was also full of hope for racial harmony, exemplified by choirs of black and white children who sang together.\u003cbr/\u003ePalestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and U-S Attorney General Janet Reno were among those who watched Mbeki's inauguration outside the Union Buildings, a government complex perched on a grassy hill in the capital Pretoria. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I solemnly and sincerely promise that I will always promote all that will advance the Republic and oppose all that may harm it, protect and promote the rights of all South Africans, discharge my duties with all my strengths and talents to the best of my knowledge and ability and true to the dictates of my conscience.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Thabo Mbeki, South African President\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Constitutional Court President Chaskalson: \"Raise your right hand and say so help me God\"\u003cbr/\u003eThabo Mbeki:\"So help me God\"\u003cbr/\u003eConstitutional Court President Chaskalson: \"Mr President, will you be seated to sign the oath of office\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Thabo Mbeki, South African President\u003cbr/\u003eSeconds after Mbeki took the oath in Zulu, English and Afrikaans, he and Mandela held hands high above their heads in a victory salute.\u003cbr/\u003eMilitary helicopters flew over the enormous crowd, trailing South African flags.\u003cbr/\u003eMbeki, who inherits leadership of Africa's richest country but one plagued by crime and an uneven, racially based distribution of wealth, paid tribute to Mandela and others who led the anti-apartheid fight.\u003cbr/\u003eHe has indicated the focus of government will be shifted away from reconciliation toward making good on the promises of better life for the millions of South Africans disadvantaged and impoverished by decades of racial repression under apartheid.\u003cbr/\u003eThe new president called the Mandela era a beginning, but said the full meaning of liberation would not be realized until \"our people are freed both from oppression and the dehumanising legacy of deprivation we inherited from our past.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHe told the crowd what the new dawn for South Africa must show the world.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"What it must show is a palpable process of the comprehensive renewal of our country - it's rebirth driven by the enormous talents of all our people, both black and white and made possible by the knowledge and realisation that we share a common destiny regardless of the shape of our noses.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Thabo Mbeki, South African President\u003cbr/\u003eFive years after the end of white rule, 42 per cent of the country's blacks are unemployed and three-quarters of all the blacks with jobs earn less than 245 U-S dollars a month. \u003cbr/\u003eAt least ten (m) million people are still squatters living in shacks.\u003cbr/\u003eGone from centre stage, but still present in the wings as elder statesman, will be Mandela and his charisma, which charmed friends and foes alike. \u003cbr/\u003eHe spent 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid and set the tone for national reconciliation by forgiving those who imprisoned him and calling for South Africans of all races to bridge their racial divide.\u003cbr/\u003eMandela became president in the first all-race elections in 1994, which marked the end of apartheid.\u003cbr/\u003eThe ghosts of apartheid were banished from the event. \u003cbr/\u003eWednesday is also Youth Day, marking the anniversary of the start of the 1976 Soweto uprising, a turning point in the struggle against apartheid. Hector Peterson and eight other children died that June 16.\u003cbr/\u003eMandela goes into retirement, but he plans to split his time between Johannesburg, Maputo, Mozambique, where his wife Graca comes from, and Qunu, his childhood village in rural southeastern South Africa.\u003cbr/\u003eMbeki was suffering from the flu and cancelled bilateral meetings he had scheduled with some of the heads of state attending the ceremony.\u003cbr/\u003e Pretoria, South Africa, June 16 1999 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid-shot people dancing\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close-up feet\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid-shot dancing\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide-shot Buddhists\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid-shot Buddhists with drum\u003cbr/\u003e6. Soldiers on horseback\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide-shot Police with dog\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close-up of South African flag\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide-shot amphitheatre\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid-shot kids singing\u003cbr/\u003e11. Moammar Gadhafi showing peace sign\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide-shot Arafat arriving\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close-up Yasser Arafat greeting people \u003cbr/\u003e14. Thabo Mbeki arrives and waves hands\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide-shot Mbeki waving at guests\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide-shot Mandela arrival\u003cbr/\u003e17. Pan of amphitheatre\u003cbr/\u003e18. Nelson Mandela greeting Mbeki\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide-shot podium\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Thabo Mbeki, South African President \u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide-shot public\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Constitutional Court President Chaskalson \u0026amp; Thabo Mbeki, South African President \u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide-shot public applauding\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide-shot Mbeki signing\u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid-shot Mandela and Mbeki patting each other on the back and walking forward and raising their hands\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide shot crowd \u003cbr/\u003e27. Mid-shot field gun being fired\u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid-shot helicopters with national flag fly past \u003cbr/\u003e29. 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