Mantashe: SACP will pay a heavy price at elections:

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.

To expect Ramaphosa to go to Marikana is an abnormal arrangement. Zuma was the president and there was a minister of police, and nobody talks about that. Ramaphosa does not owe Marikana a visit; he owes Marikana a visit like everybody else.

— Gwede Mantashe, ANC chairperson, in an exclusive interview with the Mail & Guardian.

The time for that will come, and I can tell you, I'm not going to be available. I'm old. I'm more than 70 years old, so I'm retiring.

— Gwede Mantashe speaks on the speculation regarding his availability for the ANC leadership position.

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.

We certainly have a motion of no confidence against the president up our sleeve, but we always say that our action must be commensurate with the infringement.

— Helen Zille, Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance Federal Council, discussing the no-confidence motion against President Cyril Ramaphosa.