No major policy changes in SA: Zuma

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ANC president Jacob Zuma has assured major European investors that the party's new leadership will not embark on any major policy changes to appease its left leaning alliance partners, the Congress of South African trade unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party (SACP).

Zuma is visiting Europe to meet and interact with political and business leaders. He's currently in London where he's scheduled to meet with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as part of his week-long European tour.

During his meeting in Berlin, Germany the ANC leader engaged with foreign investors and business communities about the political situation in South Africa and the status of the ANC post-Polokwane.

Zuma has expressed confidence that they have managed to allay fears about the future of the country under the party's new leadership.

“We have been addressing concerns of investors. Some of them were not necessarily founded on facts ... for example they would say what are the new leadership policies going to be ... as if this new leadership came from outside of the ANC."

Zuma added: “But at times the questions are posed as if we who are now part of this leadership we have not been there. So we have been clarifying those issues that there is no need for any concern that things are not going to change. I think the message is getting through well.”