Nzimande calls special congress to reassess SACP's election strategy

NATIONAL chairperson of the SACP, Professor Blade Nzimande, has proposed a Special National Congress to review the Party's 2024 decision to contest the 2026 local elections independently of the ANC.

- HOPE NTANZI [e-mail]

He warned that any implementation should rest on a "concrete analysis of the situation".

The announcement comes just days ahead of the SACP's 6th Special National Congress in Johannesburg, scheduled for November 14 to 16, 2025.

Nzimande said the party finds itself at "a decisive historical juncture that calls for sober reflection."

He argued that reviewing the 2024 resolution "is not a matter of bureaucratic housekeeping, but a profound political necessity" given the evolving conditions in South Africa's political economy.

He said the party must reassert its revolutionary role "not through rhetoric, wishful thinking or revolutionary slogans, but through dialectical engagement with changing realities".

According to him, the SACP must remain guided by "strategic consistency, analytical alertness and tactical flexibility," while avoiding both right-wing and ultra-left tendencies that could weaken or break the Tripartite Alliance.