Tripartite Alliance: It's Over 3

Posted by Farrel Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:51:00 GMT

According to this report the ANC has challenged the SACP to split from the tripartite alliance and fend for itself in the SA political landscape. The ANC is asking why the SACP feels it is marginalised when senior SACP leaders are in high up positions in the cabinet and government. In it’s attack on the SACP authored paper, ‘State Power’, the ANC even question the the political chops of it’s authors:

Besides the possibility of conceitedness, this patently subjective treatment of history does pose another question about the character of the authors of the discussion document… For how long have they been in SACP ranks?

I’m calling it. 20th June 2006 – the end of the tripartite alliance. It may still persist publicly but within the SACP/ANC/COSATU group it might as well be over, there is seemingly so much bad blood and I don’t see it getting better any time soon.

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  1. DA Mal Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:34:21 GMT

    I’m calling it.

    Brave man. Let’s see who’s elected in 2007 as candidate to lead the ANC into the 2009 general election before I join you in your assessment.

  2. Farrel Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:56:21 GMT

    I’ve had my predictions proved wrong before (I thought the Cape Town DA led alliance wouldn’t last a week) so I may be proved wrong again here.

    That being said with the issue of succession still around I don’t see this issue going away until the ANC NEC elections in 2007 although the SACP could split before then.

  3. Rayne Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:19:19 GMT

    Does the ANC really need the SACP anymore? It got what it needed from them during the apartheid period, but now the SACP and ANC are growing apart. The ANC stands with, and for, the status quo, while the SACP (and COSATU) has become increasingly critical of the same.

    However, the SACP still has lots of vested interests in the ANC (the “senior SACP leaders” which you mentioned), so a divorce between the two would be quite messy.

    But hey, then the SACP can start acting like a real party, with fielding candidates in elections to compete against the ANC just like any other legitimate party.

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