The ANC and its allies have patched up their differences and agreed to work together to ensure an ANC victory in the 2019 election. The allies also agreed to hold an economic summit to discuss the country’s "economic policy direction". The long-awaited political council between the ANC and its allies, the South African Communist Party (SACP), Cosatu and the South African National Civics Organisation, commonly referred to as the tripartite alliance, took place over the weekend after years of fraught relations, which included calls by the allies for the removal of former president Jacob Zuma as president. In 2017 the SACP contested elections on its own in Metsimaholo in Free State. The tripartite alliance agreed to jointly look at ways to cushion the poor from the "economic crisis" as unemployment remained high and the cost of living was being pushed to unacceptable levels courtesy of rising fuel costs and an increase in VAT. The state of the economy is set to feature prominently on a...
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