# ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula insists that the South African Communist Party remains a comrade, and not an adversary. The ANC National Executive Committee has directed dual members of the SACP to campaign for the party ahead of the local government elections. This is in response to the SACP’s decision to contest the elections independently. This binding on all members without exception. Mbalula emphasised that there is no hostility between the ANC and the SACP:
Mbalula says the SACP is not an enemy of the ANC [SOUND]
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