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THE South African Communist Party (SACP) discussed standing in elections against long-standing alliance partner the ANC yesterday.
SACP spokesman Alex Mashilo told South African media that the issue was on the agenda of the party’s three-day central committee meeting in Johannesburg that began on Wednesday.
Mr Mashilo said: “We already have our own support base,” separate from that of the ANC, which the party has supported since the 1930s.
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
The shared path of the South African Communist Party and the ANC to the ballot box has found itself at a junction. SABINA PRICE reports
The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS