There’s been debate among some writers and activists that these elections taking place next week Wednesday lack a socialist voice. Is that the case? Is there a future for socialism in South Africa?

Guest: Gunnett Kaaf, Marxist writer and activist

• The next elections and socialist voices
• Parties that claim to be left
• Socialism in SA if it has a chance

Ebrahim Harvey | South Africa's missing socialist voice in the 2024 polls

Once again, South Africans go to the polls on 29 May without a socialist party dedicated to the interests and needs of the black working-class majority, whose lives are wrecked by worsening poverty, unemployment and social inequalities. Not even the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP), which had participated in the 2019 national and provincial elections, has registered for the 2024 one.