SACP cannot accept the EFF and DA relationship

ANC ALLIANCE partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP), has “accepted the will of the people as expressed on the ballot”, but can’t accept the EFF and DA working together.

This comes after the EFF had indicated that they would be voting for the DA and other opposition parties in hung municipalities.

EFF leader Julius Malema said they would not vote for the ANC as long as President Jacob Zuma was in power.

In his criticism of the EFF’s stance, SACP spokesman, Alex Mashilo called it returning power to a “party of the rich and white privilege”. He said the marriage of the two opposition parties was essentially embedded in, and is ultimately tantamount to harnessing the EFF as a strategy to hand power back to the interests of minority rule based on white supremacy fronted and masked in a black face.

Mashilo said that the conditions in Alexandra and other poor communities was a direct result of the system of racist oppression and capitalist exploitation that was advocated by the DA.

In response, EFF General Secretary Godrich Gardee said they chose not vote for the ANC because they want to destroy it as they viewed it as “extremely corrupt” and unfit to govern.

DA spokeswoman Phumzile van Damme said, “The EFF’s offer to vote with the DA doesn’t go beyond that. There is no strategy, what the SACP is alleging is just a figment of their imagination.”