Nzimande calls for rethink of 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.

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PROFESSOR Blade Nzimande has called for a Special National Congress to strengthen the SACP. | SIYASANGA MBAMBANI GCIS

He warned that any implementation should rest on a “concrete analysis of the concrete situation”

The announcement comes just days ahead of the SACP’s 6th Special National Congress in Johannesburg, this week.

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.”