Gwede Mantashe removed from SACP central committee: Here's why:
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Gwede Mantashe Removed from SACP CommitteeMantashe was ousted in 2025 for missing multiple meetings without apology but retains SACP membership amid rising party tensions.
- Gwede Mantashe lost his Central Committee position due to missing more than three consecutive meetings without valid excuses.
- He remains a member of the South African Communist Party despite the removal from its leadership body.
- The SACP will contest the 2026 local elections independently, criticizing the ANC’s alliance with the Democratic Alliance.
- This marks increasing ideological and strategic conflicts between the SACP and its former ally, the ANC.
We had an opportunity to manage things differently, but the ANC was arrogant. Even in meetings, they didn’t take our proposals seriously.— Solly Mapaila, General Secretary of the SACP, spoke at the Central Committee meeting in Braamfontein about the challenges in the relationship with the ANC.
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Gwede Mantashe removed from SACP central committee: Here's why: The South African Communist Party (SACP) has confirmed the removal of ANC chairperson Gwede ...
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SACP removes Mantashe from central committee as tensions with ANC heighten: Mantashe brushes off sacking from the central committee, as ANC warns SACP could ...
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This decision is not an attack on the alliance, it is not even hostile to the ANC or Cosatu or Sanco, it is rather the exercise of a working class political independence within a framework of the revolutionary alliance.— Solly Mapaila, SACP general secretary, clarifying that the decision to contest elections independently is not an attack on the alliance but an assertion of working class independence.
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