By Simon Nare
The ANC continues to express its frustration with its ally, the SA Communist Party (SACP), which has resolved to contest next year’s Local Government Elections independently.
In his closing remarks at the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting on Monday, party president Cyril Ramaphosa said although the party recognised the SACP as an independent political organisation that has the right to contest elections, the resolution was bound to cause divisions and confusion within the tripartite alliance.
Ramaphosa said that while the ANC disagreed with SACP, it had no intention of interfering with the decision.
“We believe that this decision has fundamental implications for the strategy and programme of the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) and the alliance that has led the struggle for liberation in our country since the 1920s,” Ramaphosa told NEC members, who included former president Thabo Mbeki.
“While the alliance between the SACP and the
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