By 2007, when the SACP (and Cosatu) turned to Jacob Zuma to ‘save’ the Tripartite Alliance from Thabo Mbeki, and the party’s ...

Since the formalisation of the tripartite alliance in 1992, a delicate balancing act between the ANC, the South African ...

SACP general-secretary Solly Mapaila said the move was not aimed at weakening the ANC, but intended to reignite the tripartite alliance.

With the ANC emerging from last year’s bruising national polls, having garnered 40.1% of the votes, the SA Communist Party’s (SACP) decision to go it alone in the 2026 local government elections will ...