By Johnathan Paoli
The ANC will take a definitive decision on the future of dual membership at the close of its 5th National General Council (NGC), national media liaison Mothusi Shupinyane Ka Ndaba told Inside Politics on Wednesday.
“The General National Council will take a resolution regarding the issue, and adopt a position,” he said, as tensions with the South African Communist Party (SACP) escalate.
At the centre of the crisis is the SACP’s December 2024 resolution to contest the 2026 local government elections independently, a break with decades of alliance tradition.
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula has told delegates that the party’s national executive committee (NEC) has effectively issued the SACP with an ultimatum: reverse the decision or accept that dual members may lose their ANC membership.
He warned that the NEC had rejected proposals to allow SACP members to campaign for both organisations, saying this would create “sleepers who
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