Considerations for making the SACP electorally significant

Daily Maverick | 18.05.2026 02:16
A recent Business Day editorial, “The Rupture of the ANC-SACP Alliance”, raises issues this article seeks to address more extensively. The editorial’s focus is the ANC; ours is the South African Communist Party. The editorial sees the ANC’s “deafness” to SACP cries over the years for equal status in the alliance as integral to the ANC’s “fail[ure] to renew itself”. Our focus is the SACP’s renewal failure, particularly “in the marketplace of ideas”.
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