President Cyril Ramaphosa says he's hoping the ANC's alliance partner, the SA Communist Party SACP, which has indicated it would contest the local government elections on its own, will rethink its decision.
'We have said we don't agree with that. We are obviously saying also, this is going to fragment our unity,' said Ramaphosa in an interview with the SABC on Thursday.
'It SACP's contestation is going to weaken us and we want the SACP to rethink the entire process, and I am hoping that way before the elections, there will be a rethink and we will be back together and re-examine precisely how we should work together.'