Solly Mapaila is a South African politician who is the incumbent General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, he was elected unopposed on the 15th of July 2022 in his current position at the SACP National Congress. Solly Mapaila has been the Second Deputy General Secretary of the South African Communist Party since 2012. Activism Mapaila was a member of Umkhonto weSizwe and operated outside of South Africa prior to 1994. On returning to South Africa in 1994 he was integrated into the South African Defence Force and stationed at Thaba Tshwane. Work He is a forceful and determined critic of corruption within the African National Congress and the South African government, and of the leadership of South African president Jacob Zuma. The group of president Zuma supporters threaten him to open criminal charges against him if he continues to say that president is corrupt Mapaila has directly questioned the purported intelligence report titled "Operation Checkmate" used by President Jacob Zuma to fire the former Minister of Finance. Pravin Gordhan He has led calls from within the Tripartite Alliance for the resignation of President Jacob Zuma. Mapaila is considered a leading candidate to succeed Blade Nzimande as general secretary of the SACP when the party holds leadership elections in 2017. References Living people People from Msunduzi Local Municipality South African Communist Party politicians African National Congress politicians Year of birth missing (living people)