The SACP has welcomed ANC’s possible decision to exclude the DA as a coalition partner in local municipalities.
There are over 130 hung councils in the country after no political party received a majority vote in recent elections.
As coalition discussions take place between various political formations, the Council of the Left has called on what they call leftist parties to seize the moment and prioritise working together.
This political bloc accounts for close to 20 percent of the vote. The bloc includes the SACP, MK Party, EFF, amongst others.
SACP Acting National Spokesperson, Mhlekwa Nxumalo, “This is good progress from the side of the ANC. If NEC members now acknowledge that some of the problems that the ANC is facing is as a result of the ANC working with the Democratic Alliance. And this is the issue that we have been raising since 2024, immediately after election, that the coalition with the Democratic Alliance is a problematic position for us, because it has got a class question on what the DA represents and what the ANC stands for.”
Full interview with Nxumalo below: