South Africa’s Ramaphosa is not going to resign, spokesperson says By Reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is not going to 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 mentioned on Saturday.

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

“President Ramaphosa is just not resigning based mostly 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 might be adopted by a Nationwide Government Committee assembly on Monday the place they may determine the longer term plan of action for Ramaphosa, the ANC mentioned.

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

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