The SA Communist Party’s (SACP) decision to form a popular left front and contest the local government elections next year is another crack in the once  impregnable ANC fortress.

For the first 30 years of democracy the SACP has played an important role for the ANC by keeping its left flank within the broad church of the governing party. Now that this arrangement is breaking down, the ANC will find it harder to stem its ongoing and increasingly rapid loss of support among the urban poor and the working class. ..

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