SACP Press alert: Media invitation to SACP Annual Augmented Central Committee post-meeting press briefing

[SACP Communications]

South African Communist Party

Press alert

Media invitation to SACP Annual Augmented Central Committee post-meeting press briefing

Tuesday, 25 November 2025: - The South African Communist Party (SACP) will hold its Plenary Augmented Central Committee from Friday to Sunday, 28 – 30 November 2025.

The SACP invites the media to cover the post-meeting press briefing where General Secretary Solly Mapaila will lead the National Office Bearers to communicate the key outcomes of the Augmented Central Committee Plenary.

Post-meeting press briefing is scheduled to take place as follows:

Date:            Sunday, 30 November 2025.

Time:            15h00

Venue:         Birchwood Hotel Boksburg

The crucial three-day SACP Annual Augmented Central Committee Plenary will be attended by elected Central Committee members, Provincial Secretaries and Chairpersons, the Young Communist League National Secretary and Chairperson, as well as additional representatives from Party districts, provincial executive committees and the Young Communist League.‎‎

The Augmented Central Committee Plenary is a strategic planning session of the SACP. Its main objective is to review the year to date and develop the framework for the political and organisational programme of action for the following year.‎

The SACP Augmented Central Committee Plenary will receive various reports on the work of the Party since the Party’s previous Central Committee Plenary. SACP General Secretary Solly Mapaila will present the Political Report, including an analysis of the South African, African continental and global situation.

Both the political and organisational reports will assess the economic, social and political challenges facing the working class, responses and the state of Alliance relations, including detailed reports on bilateral meetings between the SACP and its Alliance partners. The SACP will also assess the Party’s state of readiness for the upcoming 2026 local government elections in which the Party will contest independently in its name as per Congress resolutions.