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ANC Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, delivered the Steve Tshwete Memorial Lecture at the War Memorial in King Williams Town on November 30, 2024.
African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, will deliver his party’s message of support to the South African Communist Party’s (SACP) fifth Special National Congress, which starts in Boksburg in eastern Johannesburg today.
Relations between the two parties have been strained.
The agenda of the four-day congress includes the SACP Central Committee’s resolution for the party to contest the 2026 local elections independently.
This stems from what the communist party says is the ANC’s failure to realise the reconfiguration of the tripartite alliance and its inclusion of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in its government of national unity.
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says, “We are going to the SACP congress. Deputy President Mashatile will lead our delegation. He will also deliver our message to the SACP congress as we have been invited to deliver the message of support, we will do so.”
“We have a delegation, it will go and then listen to what the conference is saying and post the conference we have a bilateral with the SACP in January.”
Mbalula adds, “ Should they actually take a decision like they have already informed us that they want to stand alone, we are going to engage that decision in terms of its implications for the alliance, but we have cautioned against that because it is going to have far-reaching implications for the alliance going forward.”
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