I remain unconvinced that the SACP will ever ditch the ANC and contest elections on its own, despite repeated threats to do so. 

While the tripartite alliance comprising the ANC, Cosatu and SACP is dead in the water, it is unlikely that the communists will be the ones to end this marriage of convenience with the former liberation movement. ..

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