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Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj has denied reports that President Jacob Zuma went to Mexico to avoid being heckled at a Youth Day event he was scheduled to address at the weekend.

“The president is attending the G20 summit. That is the only purpose of coming here. Everything else is rumour,” Maharaj said from Mexico on Monday.

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