The SACP says it does not want the ANC to consider working with the DA.
This is the party’s stance going into a meeting of the ANC’s national executive committee meeting (NEC) on Thursday to be attended by the SACP and Cosatu.
“To maintain strategic consistency, the SACP is against seeking a coalition arrangement with the right-wing, DA-led anti-ANC neo-liberal forces,” the SACP said in a statement following a meeting on Wednesday.
Business Day reported on Thursday that the ANC’s NEC, the party’s highest decision-making body between national conferences, was expected to consider a proposal to reject the possibility of a formal coalition agreement with either the DA or EFF.
But it is also understood that the ANC’s powerful national working committee (NWC), which is the executive arm of the party, will recommend offering positions in parliament and the national executive to smaller opposition parties including the DA and EFF.
The move is apparently aimed at securing a second term as head of state for President Cyril Ramaphosa.
In its weakest electoral performance since the end of apartheid the ANC saw its share of the vote fall to 40% in last week’s general election, while the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party emerged as a significant force behind the official opposition DA.
The SACP is against seeking a coalition arrangement with the MK party, whose origins can be traced back to factionalism, the corruption of state capture and resistance to accountability...
The SACP also says it is dead against a tie up with MK.
“The SACP is against seeking a coalition arrangement with the MK party, whose origins can be traced back to factionalism, the corruption of state capture and resistance to accountability, as outlined in the report of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture and related Constitutional Court judgments,” the SACP statement reads.
The SACP added that offering MK any positions in the national executive or parliament would be rewarding former president Jacob Zuma for pursuing an agenda or corruption.
“The industrial-scale looting under state capture crippled many of our state-owned enterprises, public entities and financial resources, negatively affecting the capacity of our state to serve the people,” the SACP said.
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