Tensions between the African National Congress ANC and its alliance partner, the South African Communist Party SACP, are raising concerns about a growing contestation over the ownership and interpretation of key ideological frameworks within the tripartite alliance.
Political commentator Xolelwa Kashe-Katiya believes the SACP should ideally remain central in discussions on the National Democratic Revolution NDR, arguing that the SACP has historically provided the ideological grounding that shaped the framework.
"The SACP should be at the centre of those discussions. The SACP has always been the leader in terms of those ideological underpinnings, that's the influence, that's what makes the ANC what they are, the presence of Cosatu, it's about workers' struggles. So, there was a particular identity that, you know, was supposed to be carried by the ANC, but with this fallout it is difficult to understand," says Kashe-Katiya.
