http://www.politics.za.net/articles/2006/06/18/communist-party-numbers-increase-may-actually-win-a-seat en-us 40 Third world country. First world politics. <p>The Business Day Weekender <a href="http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/weekender.aspx?ID=BD4A217206">reports</a> that the <acronym title="South African Communist Party">SACP</acronym> has been going on a determined voter drive in order to increase their membership, perhaps before any potential split occurs. They are up to just over 40 000 members which means that if elections are held tomorrow and they manage to convince another 10 000 people to vote for them they might win a single seat in parliament. Not exactly the opposition to the <span class="caps">ANC</span> they would like to be?</p> Sun, 18 Jun 2006 04:15:00 -0500 urn:uuid:d08bc0bde8f238fe659e2d1d160e3b44 Farrel http://www.politics.za.net/articles/2006/06/18/communist-party-numbers-increase-may-actually-win-a-seat SACP http://www.politics.za.net/articles/trackback/169