The SACP says its decision to continue campaigning for the ANC ahead of the 2019 general elections is not a deviation from resolutions adopted at its 174th national congress last year.
The ANC, SACP, trade union federation Cosatu and the South African National Civic Organisation held a media briefing at the ANC's headquarters on Tuesday, following a much-anticipated alliance summit meeting.
The meeting, which was initially meant to take place in 2017, had been postponed as fractured relations between the governing party and its alliance partners prevailed. Some in the ANC had called for an end to its long-established relationship with the three organisations, while members of the SACP considered going at it alone at the polls.
Members of the communist party in Metsimaholo, in the Free State, contested in a by-election on their own. This eventually resulted in a coalition government of the ANC and the SACP.
The ANC's secretary general, Ace Magashule, reading from a statement from all the organisations that participated in the summit, said they had all agreed to work towards one goal.
"We agreed that the 2019 election campaign must now be on the ground to ensure an overwhelming victory for the ANC," read Magashule.