Friday marked the 100th anniversary of the South African Communist Party. On 30 July, precisely a hundred years ago, the birth of South Africa's Communist Party was announced in Cape Town. The South African party immediately affiliated with the third Communist International (Comintern) organisation, with the Soviet Union as its leading light. The CPSA and its successor in 1953, the South African Communist Party (SACP), have played a much more influential role in the politics of South Africa than most other communist parties on the African continent. The main milestones, in my view, are party programmes like "The Road to South African Freedom" (1962), "The Path to Power" (1989), "Strategic Perspectives" (1995) and "The South African Road to Socialism" (2007).

Source: News 24 July 31, 2021 03:00 UTC