Mashatile To Address Sacp's Special National Congress

African National Congress ANC Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, will deliver his partys 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 Committees resolution for the party to contest the 2026 local elections independently.

This stems from what the communist party says is the ANCs 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."