By Simon Nare
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula has conceded the party has failed to persuade its alliance partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP), to abandon plans to contest state power in the 2026 local government elections but dismissed speculation that the alliance is collapsing.
Speaking to journalists ahead of a Special National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg on Friday, Mbalula said ANC structures have no mandate from any conference resolution to end the tripartite alliance.
Instead, he said, the NEC will focus on the practical and political implications of the SACP’s decision, a move he warned could further affect the ANC’s electoral performance following its poor showing in the last national and provincial elections.
“The SACP has taken a decision, and that decision stands. The question before us, arising from the National General Council (NGC) and other mandates, is to guide our structures on
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