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ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa with the SACP leadership.
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The South African Community Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) have agreed to set up a joint alliance consensus mechanism to speed up their reconfiguration programme.
This follows a meeting between party leaders in Johannesburg on Monday.
The meeting was led by ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa and the communist party’s general secretary, Solly Mapaila.
Last year, the SACP raised concerns about how the ANC conducted themselves on the question of reconfiguring the alliance, leading to the party deciding to contest future elections independently.
In a statement, the SACP and ANC say the joint alliance consensus seeks to mend relations and address electoral strategy.
“The IEC will be assessing all other representations after the 24th of March, but we were the first to make our representation within three days and to correspond with the IEC. And we did this after the SACP held a special National Congress in December 2024 where delegates to the Congress resolved that the SACP must contest the 2026 local government elections. That was actually a reaffirmation. The decision dates back to the previous two national congresses of the SACP, one in 2022 and the previous one in 2017,” says SACP National Spokesperson Alex Mashilo.
