Zuma elected South African president

South Africa’s parliament elected Jacob Zuma as president today, cheering the astonishing rise of a self-educated teenage goatherder who transformed himself into the leader of Africa’s economic powerhouse.

Mr Zuma will be inaugurated on Saturday, the culmination of a remarkable comeback for the former underground leader who survived prison under the country’s apartheid government, a rape allegation and corruption scandals on his way to the top job.