Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) president, Mzwanele Nyhontso, has rebutted suggestions that left-wing political parties are dying.
This follows an electoral decline of the PAC and Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) in recent polls.
Azapo was swept out of Parliament following the 2014 elections and has not returned since.
The PAC has been boasting one seat in the national legislature since the 2014 elections.
Nyhontso says this does not mean their parties are dead.
“An organisation whose history is as rich as Azapo and as rich as the PAC cannot die. Even those who predicted the death of Azapo and the death of the PAC, most of them we personally attended their funerals, they are dead but the PAC is still alive and Azapo is still alive. You cannot say Azapo is not there, that they do not have a seat in parliament – that does not mean that Azapo is not alive. But we need to get closer together and make sure that we grow these two organisations.”
Meanwhile, Nyhontso says in as much as they are part of the Government of National Unity (GNU), they miss AZAPO in the seventh parliament to champion the return of land to the landless black people.
Video | PAC wishes AZAPO was part of GNU: Nyhontso
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