Some who have left the party might view their exit as a politically expedient shortcut to power
The SACP is asking important questions of itself but, like the other parties busy with political activities this week — and those threatening to walk out of the government of national unity — it should also be asking itself what material benefit its decisions will bring to those it will be asking to vote for the party come the 2026 local government elections
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Former secretary general Godrich Gardee appears set to be elected as deputy president
The party is also set to discuss whether to ‘donate’ its votes to the ANC after the poll
Nominations for the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans 2025 are now open
3D KZN town has delectable case about nude swimming (6)
The South African Communist Party has rejected claims of collaborating with the uMkhonto weSizwe party, describing it as a counter-revolutionary organisation
Rashid Vally gave a voice to the new black jazz of the Seventies — and on a shoestring
Record label owner and producer Rashid Vally was so unobtrusive in his dealings with artists that only music nerds recognise his name