ANC’s Gauteng provincial task team coordinator Panyaza Lesufi (L) speaks to Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero at Cedarwoods in Johannesburg, 3 December 2025, during its regional conference. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/ The Citizen Despite the SACP being expected to contest the upcoming local government elections on its own, it offered the ANC in Johannesburg a message of support at its regional elective conference. This conference will essentially elect the ANC’s chairperson, and who is likely to become its mayoral candidate in next year’s elections.
The SACP’s Afrika Masoa gave his party’s message of support at the ANC event in Woodmead on Wednesday, but he did not hide the tensions between the two parties. This stems from the SACP’s decision to contest the local government elections for the first time without the ANC. “The communist party has a stake inside the ANC, and that is why we are here.
We will contest inside the ANC, we are not going to go out,” he said. He reminded the ANC that it is now in a weak position after only getting 40% of the vote in 2024’s general elections. This led to the party entering into an unfavourable coalition with the DA.
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“Our understanding is that when people do not vote, it’s not that they hate the organisations that are there, they are rejecting the system… they are saying what we are expecting we do not get,” he said. Masoa said the ANC should be reminded that the SACP was formed to attain state power, not to support any other party. But he said they had chosen to attain this goal by backing the National Democratic Revolution (NDR). It is still not clear whether SACP members who hold dual membership will be allowed in the ANC’s discussions on strategies for contesting the upcoming local government elections, since the SACP’s decision essentially makes them opponents.
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