The future of the ANC-led tripartite alliance hangs in the balance. A key feature of post-1994 SA politics has been the erosion of the alliance between the ANC, the SA Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu). It has worsened under President Jacob Zuma’s watch. For the past year the alliance has existed on paper only. The SACP recently fought a by-election for the first time — in Metsimaholo in the Free State.
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