Worker’s Day commemorations are expected to be attended by both Zuma’s friends and foes with divisions likely to play out publicly
Historically, trade unions in the country have played a significant role in shaping the political landscape.
The SACP secretary general says an anti-Zuma campaign will not resolve the fundamental causes of the problems facing the country.
The name of SACP struggle hero Chris Hani, who was assassinated in 1993, is regularly invoked to win political arguments in South Africa.
Vavi was addressing a crowd of more than 25 000 people at Tshwane’s Church Square, where civil society leaders and civilians gathered.
The ANC’s integrity commission this week also confirmed that it recommended Zuma should vacate office as head of state
"It is a question of when, and not if, Zuma falls, politically speaking."
The communist party has validated reports that the president had revealed his intention to fire the finance minister and his deputy.
A visibly emotional Gordhan struggled to hold back his tears.
The president reportedly presented the name of Brian Molefe as the new finance minister but the ANC’s top leaders rejected the president’s choice.
The general secretary has lashed out at those in the ANC who have a ‘Guptarisation’ agenda
Molefe is due to be sworn in as Member of Parliament this week, amidst speculation that a Cabinet reshuffle is imminent.
Readers write in about the SACP, and the black sheep of the family.
The timing of the fraud claims against the finance minister has raised suspicions among close to a dozen of the party’s NEC members.
The SA Communist Party believes the ANC should convene a non-elective conference to unify the party and the alliance.
The SACP in the Western Cape on Wednesday demanded the immediate dismissal of the SABC’s chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng
The ANC’s National Executive Committee’s sub-committee on communications has distanced itself from the banning of the coverage of violent protests.
Twenty buses were set alight and roads blocked as protests around the Tshwane region turned ugly on Monday night.
Nzimande has tried to set up meetings with Zuma, but Number One neither answers his calls nor returns them.
Utterances by the communist party belie the claim that all is well in the alliance.
KwaZulu-Natal SACP chairperson James Nxumalo has gone against the grain and accepted the president’s apology for his role in the Nkandla debacle.
The campaign for the president to go sends a message that no one is above the Constitution.
On Thursday the Pretoria High Court dismissed the application for leave to appeal the release of Chris Hani’s killer, Janusz Walus.
Rifts are showing in the ruling party after revelations that the Gupta family offered various ANC members positions in the South African Cabinet.
Senior South African Communist Party leaders have been saying behind the scenes that it is time for the president to be recalled.
The "premier league" has been blamed for a move to bar Cosatu and the SACP from giving solidarity messages ahead of the ANC’s 104th birthday.
By 1954, Sarah had been banned from all the organisations she was associated with and restricted from attending public gatherings for two years.
An ANC faction accused the SACP of using Zuma as a Trojan horse at Polokwane. Will the communists survive the onslaught ahead of the 2017 conference?
The latest spat is just another internal ANC struggle for power, and it will contribute only to greater ideological confusion.
While the SACP may contest elections in the future, its focus was now on electoral support for the ANC, said general secretary Blade Nzimande.
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says independent judges need to be respected and that the ANC welcomes the meeting with Chief Justice Mogoeng.
The third special national congress of the South African Communist Party (SACP) saw some classic rethoric.