SACP contesting elections will impact ANC negatively: Mbalula

African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula has conceded that the South African Communist Party’s (SACP) decision to contest elections separate from the tripartite alliance will have a negative impact on the ANC.

He says the ANC is continuing to engage the SACP with the hope that the two parties will reach common ground.

Mbalula addressed delegates of the Northern Cape ANC elective conference in Kimberley yesterday.

“We are processing the discussion including its implication to us as the movement. It’s important that we must engage and we are engaging with it and what we have said and what we have seen is that if the SACP stands on its own, it will have impact on the alliance. So that is why we are not on this emotional roller-coaster. This will not be rewarding to us.”