{"id":35943,"date":"2026-06-01T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35943"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:01:01","slug":"sas-left-gathering-ends-with-new-leadership-body","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-left-gathering-ends-with-new-leadership-body\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Left gathering ends with new leadership body"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The Conference of the Left has ended in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa (SA) with the establishment of the Council of the Left.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Organisers say the Council will be an instrument of unity in action and not as a command structure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">They also denounced the current constitution as having failed to serve the poor and the working class.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The three-day gathering saw over 300 representatives from different political parties, civil society, academics and youth and women formations amongst others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The delegates of the Conference of the Left have called for sweeping economic reforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Political parties, civic organisation, traditional leaders and academics among others met under one roof to forge unity of the left-wing parties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">They believe their gathering was the hope for the country&#8217;s poor and marginalised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">They also have resolved to establish the Council of the Left to co-ordinate their activities and programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Although these parties vowed to work together, they have also vowed not to erode their autonomy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14338,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35943","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"The Conference of the Left has ended in Johannesburg,","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35944,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35943\/revisions\/35944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}