African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema on Tuesday expressed support for President Jacob Zuma leading the ANC for a second term.

"Nobody will remove Zuma. If you want to serve in the ANC, support Zuma," he told students at the University of Johannesburg.

"That [Zuma] is the only man guaranteed in 2012 for a second term."

Malema alluded, however, to the Youth League's not wanting ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe to be part of the party's leadership in 2012, and replaced with Fikile Mbalula.

"But in that top six there is one man who will not be coming back ... who has isolated himself from the ANC," Malema said.

He dismissed reports, however, of plans to oust Mantashe at the ANC's September national general council, saying that all current leaders would complete their five-year term.

Malema claimed that whatever the Youth League pronounced on would be the outcome of the 2012 leadership race.

He condemned accusations against some ANC leaders made by the Congress of South African trade Unions (Cosatu), as well as criticism by the union federation of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Zuma.

Malema expressed concern over the "apartheid regime of the Western Cape", under the premiership of Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille.

He accused her of demolishing churches in Khayelitsha and dragging the elderly out of their places of worship.

"Helen Zille, who is suffering from Satanism, has gone all out to demolish the churches in the Western Cape. She is exposing herself... people there will know they voted for a monster."