POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: ANC and alliance partners to plan way ahead at political council
The ANC and its alliance partners will hold the first political council since the election of President Cyril Ramaphosa as governing party president. The ANC, the South African Communist Party (SACP), Cosatu and the South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) will meet on Monday. On the agenda for the alliance political council is the state of the alliance, strengthening relations among the partners, working to strengthen each component and the state of the economy. Cosatu and the SACP have called for the reconfiguration of the alliance. Both the SACP and Cosatu had backed Ramaphosa in 2017’s ANC succession race and had called on former president Jacob Zuma to step down or be removed. The alliance was at its weakest under Zuma’s leadership, and the SACP had resolved at its 14th congress in July 2017 that it would contest the elections. In June, the SACP central committee meeting said its call for the reconfiguration of the alliance was not "narrowly" about the question of elec...
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