SACP vows to strengthen municipalities as public institutions if elected [SOUND]

# The South African Communist Party wants to strengthen municipalities as public institutions and build internal municipal capacity. National spokesperson Mbulelo Mandlana said at the Electoral Commission’s national results operations centre in Midrand, Gauteng, they reject outsourcing municipal functions and reliance on consultants, arguing these practices undermine employment. Mandlana says the SACP, who is contesting elections on its own for the first time, wants to promote greater working-class participation in local governance: