It would be useless for the South African Communist Party (SACP) to contest elections without the support of Cosatu and its unions, said the party’s general secretary, Blade Nzimande. Pleading with National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) members to back the party if it breaks away from the ANC-led alliance, he said it would be suicidal if the party broke away without workers’ support. Nzimande was speaking at the NUM’s 16th national congress, where delegates are expected to debate whether to support the SACP’s resolution to contest elections on its own or under a reconfigured alliance. He said the NUM could not exist without the party and neither could the party without workers. "We are not going to throw the SACP as a vanguard alone into an electoral contest if the working class does not support us on this," he said. The SACP resolved at its congress in July 2017 that it would explore whether to contest elections on its own or within a reconfigured alliance. The party, along with labou...
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