President Jacob Zuma will not be removed from office and will complete his second term, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“No one is going to remove President Zuma from office,” Mthethwa told thousands gathered at the Giyani Stadium for Freedom Day celebrations.<\/p>\n
“President Zuma and his government have been elected and are expected to go out and renew the mandate of 2019 and it is going to be so.”<\/p>\n
Mthethwa said the Constitution of the country dictated that a president serve five years, and nothing would change that. He said those calling for\u00a0Zuma to be recalled were trying to bypass the electoral system to claim a victory.<\/p>\n
“The people today who want to take short cuts [after] being defeated in the ballot box by voting out the president by impeachment are not going to succeed. We will continue to lead,” said Mthethwa.<\/p>\n
He said the ANC was the only party that could take the Constitution of the country forward. He said small parties would not affect how people saw the ANC.<\/p>\n
“There are no Mickey Mouse parties that will tell the electorate what to do. Those parties must know there is only one president for South Africa,” he said.<\/p>\n
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