South Africa’s Ramaphosa won’t resign, spokesperson says By Reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa won’t resign and can search a second time period as chief of the ruling African Nationwide Congress (ANC) after allies rallied behind him to remain on, a spokesperson from the president’s workplace stated on Saturday.

Ramaphosa’s place as the pinnacle of state got here into query after an unbiased parliamentary panel stated in a report he might need violated oath of workplace with reference to hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in money that was discovered at his non-public recreation farm.

“President Ramaphosa is just not resigning primarily based on a flawed report, neither is he stepping apart,” Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya instructed journalists by textual content message.

“The President has taken to coronary heart the unequivocal message coming from the branches of the governing occasion who’ve nominated him to avail himself for a 2nd time period of the management of the ANC.”

Ramaphosa has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged with any crimes.

The members of the ANC will collect at a particular Nationwide Working Committee assembly on Sunday which shall be adopted by a Nationwide Government Committee assembly on Monday the place they may resolve the longer term plan of action for Ramaphosa, the ANC stated.

The president would problem the report and its findings, the spokesperson stated.

“It’s in the long run curiosity and sustainability of our constitutional democracy… that such a clearly flawed report is challenged.”