THE African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured the party’s Tripartite Alliance partners, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), that the governing party will conclude discussions on the reconfiguration of the alliance.
Ramaphosa was speaking during the SACP’s 15th national congress in Johannesburg, where he acknowledged that there was significant anxiety within the SACP and Cosatu that the ANC had not fully concluded its own discussions.
“I can say that as President of the ANC I do support that we should have a thorough ongoing discussion on the reconfiguration of the alliance. We must discuss in depth precisely what our roles, what our responsibilities are as we chart the way forward. So we are going to devote time to conclude that discussion,” he said.
Ramaphosa told the delegates at the congress that the ANC remained firmly committed to its
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