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The ANC–SACP partnership was forged under conditions of intense struggle. Its future should not be jeopardised in a democratic era where the need for cohesive leadership remains as urgent as ever.
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

ANC-SACP rift widens

As tensions rise between the SACP and the ANC ahead of local government elections, SACP general secretary Solly Mapaila has strongly criticised the governing party's neoliberal…

  • Brian Sokutu
6 min read
Four square behind Cyril: The ANC NEC special sitting which deliberated on the Section 89 Constitutional Court judgement, has ruled to support the president fully. Photo: My ANC
ANC NEC

ANC closes ranks behind Ramaphosa

After Parliament established an impeachment committee linked to the Phala Phala scandal, Ramaphosa has refused to resign, insisting the Constitutional Court ruling does not…

  • Mandisa Makgakga
  • Lunga Mzangwe
7 min read
Dying breed: In the 1980s and early 1990s, labour reporting formed an important part of South African journalism. Photo: Supplied
ANC

May Day and the disappearance of the labour beat

As the country marks another May Day, the central question is not nostalgia for an earlier media moment. It is whether democratic communication can still make workers visible in…

  • Mandla J Radebe
5 min read
The Communists don’t feature as a force of any kind in opinion polls and when it has tried its luck in local by-elections it has been routed, at times struggling to get even a handful of votes. All indications are that it will have zero impact in the local elections
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

ANC and SACP – Political Merry-Go-Round

The Communists don’t feature as a force of any kind in opinion polls and when it has tried its luck in local by-elections it has been routed, at times struggling to get even a…

  • Imraan Buccus
6 min read
Affirmation: Solidarity with Cuba, marking 65 years since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion by the imperialist US regime, which sought to destroy the Cuban Revolution. Photo: SACP
AFRICA

We stand with Cuba, our friend

The protests rejected this. They insisted that what we are seeing is the expansion of a single logic: imperial in character, colonial in structure, even when it speaks the…

  • Nigel Branken
6 min read
Will he, will he not? Despite the rumours gaining traction around billionaire businessman Patrice Motsepe being in the running to replace President Cyril Ramphosa, his office has consistently denied any intention of him entering politics. Photo: Milken Institute
ACTIONSA

Thumbs up for Motsepe

“This is not about Patrice waking up one morning and wanting to be president,” the lobbyist said. “It is about stabilising the centre of power before the ANC implodes”

  • Mandisa Makgakga
7 min read
Riding into the sunset: ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe said the alliance has been central to the country’s liberation struggle and all partners were custodians of a revolutionary project in which South Africans had invested hope and expectation. Mantashe has indicated he is not available or nomination anymore. Photo: ANC
AMCU

Mantashe: SACP will pay a heavy price at elections

The ANC chairperson also urged the party not to elect a strongman president at its 2027 conference

  • Lunga Mzangwe
8 min read
Resolute: SACP general secretary Solly Mapaila delivers the Party message at the COSATU 40th Anniversary Rally. Photo: SACP
ANC

SACP ignores ANC pleas, presses on

The deepening rupture between the two was laid bare at the commemoration of Joe Slovo’s death

  • Mandisa Makgakga
7 min read
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

ANC denounces US actions against Venezuela as SACP plans a march against Washington

The two parties condemned the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife as a violation of international law

  • Mandisa Makgakga
4 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)_
ANC

Ramaphosa’s tumultuous 2025

Diplomacy, domestic strains and a test of political authority underlined this year’s presidency

  • Lunga Mzangwe
4 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa at the ANC’s 5th national general council. PHOTO: DELWYN VERASMY
ANC

Ramaphosa: SACP members must recuse themselves from ANC election strategy meetings

Earlier this week, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said those belonging to both parties would have to choose between the ANC and the SACP

  • Lunga Mzangwe
2 min read
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula. (X)
2026 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

Mbalula: ANC has failed to convince SACP against contesting 2026 elections independently

The ANC secretary-general said the organisation might need to reconsider the policy of allowing dual membership of both parties

  • Lunga Mzangwe
3 min read
ANC ALLIANCE PARTNERS

SACP calls for investigation into disbanded political killings task team

Violence monitor Mary de Haas months ago called for an investigation into the allegedly exorbitant spending on and by the team

  • Des Erasmus
4 min read
The ANC will have to manage the fallout from last month’s decision by the South African Communist Party to contest next year’s elections alone, and its relations with its other alliance partners, labour federation Cosatu and the South African National Civic Organisation. (File photo)
ANC

ANC faces a tough 2025 as it tries to clean house ahead of local elections

It will also try to ease dealings with its partners in the government of national unity (GNU), in particular the DA, ahead of local government election campaigning

  • Paddy Harper
8 min read
ANCYL President Collen Malatji
ANC

Youth league president Malatji warns SACP against breaking alliance with ANC

He also said Jacob Zuma was a ‘counter-revolutionary’ who ‘sold his people for nothing’

  • Lunga Mzangwe
3 min read