Video: Jacob Zuma: I have never refused a task from the ANC The party meets on December 16 to choose a new president and Mr Zuma has fought off a revolt against his leadership. Re-election to the post automatically crowns Mr Zuma as the party's candidate in the 2014 election. After months of violent protests over the mines and within major industries, the president said his government would step up the pace of economic reform but would not "break" existing businesses to do so. Despite a vigorous nationalisation debate within the ANC, which gathered pace after 35 miners were shot dead at a platinum mine at Marikana, north of Johannesburg in August Mr Zuma said he would not open the door to a radical state takeover of the economy. "Nationalisation is not the ANC policy," he said.