SACP rejects ANC coalition with MK, DA

The ANC has been in coalition talks since the release of the election results on Sunday evening. 

In addition to opposition parties, the ANC also needs to consider the demands of its alliance partners.

Speculation has been rife about the possibility of the ANC working with the DA nationally, or with the EFF and MK Party. 

However, SACP General Secretary Solly Mapaila said the SACP will pursue an outcome that excludes both the DA and the MK party from coalition arrangements.

"We have campaigned against the anti-worker neo-liberal and corrupt state capture networks.

“To maintain strategic consistency, the SACP is against seeking a coalition arrangement with the right-wing, DA-led anti-ANC neo-liberal forces.

“The core of the DA-led neo-liberal forces, highly supported by dominant sections of capital, mainly the white bourgeoisie whose roots can be traced to the era of colonial and apartheid oppression of the black majority, organised itself into the so-called multi-party charter. 

“This grouping also received support from western foundations.

Mapaila said the SACP is also opposed to any arrangement with the Jacob Zuma-led MK. 

“(The MK’s) 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," said Mapaila.

He stated that while the SACP supports a government of national unity, the DA and MK Party should not be included.

"The votes and number of seats from the May 2024 national and provincial government elections offer coalition permutations with the features of a developmental and transformation purpose-driven ANC-led Government of National Unity, excluding both the DA and the MKP.

“The SACP will actively pursue this outcome in the ANC-headed alliance coalition engagement process—both within the alliance and publicly through campaigning and mobilisation of the working class.

“This strategic task, outlined in our program adopted during the July 2022 Fifteenth National Congress of our party, is crucial in defending and advancing the interests of the working class against its strategic adversaries," Mapaila added.

He warned that coalition-associated instability in local government has hindered effective governance and delivery of public goods and services and must be avoided.

"We will also insist on accountability and the interests of the people, especially the majority the working class. 

The interests of the working class encompass priorities such as large-scale employment creation to resolve the unemployment crisis through industrialization and structural economic transformation, poverty eradication, and the implementation of a developmental and transformative macroeconomic policy to achieve these goals alongside other working-class interests," Mapaila concluded.

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