Jacob Zuma has told an international audience that "nothing will change" if he becomes president of the ANC or country.
In an unequivocal statement directed at dispelling fears that a radical overhaul of economic policy will follow if he wins the ANC's bruising leadership contest in Polokwane next week, he told the Africa Diaspora Foundation in Los Angeles: "Some have said that if Zuma is in charge of the administration, it will move left because of his support from the trade unions, which is very left, and those from SA Communist Party and therefore that the economic policies of the government will change.
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