Section 94: Assumption of office by President and Vice-Presidents

(1) A person elected as President assumes office when he or she takes before the Chief Justice or the next most senior judge available, the oath of President in the form set out in the Third Schedule, which oath the President must take—

    (a) on the ninth day after he or she is declared to be elected; or

    (b) in the event of a challenge to the validity of his or her election, within forty-eight hours

after the Constitutional Court has declared him or her to be the winner.

[Subsection substituted by s. 6 of Act No. 2 of 2021]

(2) The incumbent President continues in office until the assumption of office by the President-elect in terms of subsection (1).

(2a) As soon as the President assumes office, he or she shall appoint not more than two persons to be Vice-Presidents, who shall be persons qualified for election as President in terms of section 91(1), and who shall take, before the Chief Justice or the next most senior judge available, the oath of a Vice-President in the form set out in the Third Schedule.

[Subsection inserted by s. 6 of Act No. 2 of 2021]

(3) A Vice-President who becomes President on the death, resignation or removal from office of the President assumes office when he or she takes, before the Chief Justice or the next most senior judge available, the oath of President in the form set out in the Third Schedule, which oath he or she must take as soon as possible and in any event within forty-eight hours after the office of President became vacant.