FRIDAY BRIEFING | The Conference of the Left: A bold declaration or political theatre?
News24 | 05.06.2026 10:01
In 2008, researcher Dr Dale McKinley wrote in the Mediations journal that the SACP and Cosatu’s choice to be part of a dominant ANC alliance following the end of apartheid, “effectively paralysed [their] ability to organise and mobilise on a genuinely practical, pro-working class and pro-poor political basis, where their programmes and critiques are actually put to the test in real struggles happening on the ground and in the arena of democratic contestation for power”.
