United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with Republic of South Africa President Jacob Zuma as the Southern Africa state takes on the presidency of the Security Council in New York. Zuma blasted the UN for its role in the war against Libya., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Zuma to stand unopposed in SA polls, says ANC
January 20, 2014
Cape TOWN. – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress will not field a candidate other than President Jacob Zuma in the upcoming elections, the party’s deputy secretary-general, Jesse Duarte, said on Saturday. Duarte denied reports that the ANC did not want Zuma to lead the party.
Zuma is the party’s only candidate for the presidency in the elections expected to be held in April.
The ANC fully supports Zuma to run for the presidency, Duarte said at the launch of the party’s Western Cape manifesto at Delft Township on the outskirts of Cape Town.
Zuma, also the ANC’s president who was elected in 2009, will start his second term if his party wins the next election.
“There are people who say we don’t want our president, the policy is that the president of the ANC is always the candidate for the election. We don’t have another candidate and there will be no other candidate. Let us be clear,” said Duarte.
– Xinhua
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