The SACP in Limpopo has revived the call for the removal of the ANC as the leader of an alliance which include Cosatu and the SA National Civic Organisation.

The call comes after the ANC suffered a sharp decline in support in the recent local elections.

Yesterday, the SACP in Limpopo painted the ruling party as being in the pocket of big business.

SACP spokesman Machike Thobejane said the party was now lobbying other provinces to support their call ahead of a central committee meeting next week.

"The ANC is a centric right organisation that cannot conduct a revolution. We are now at a stage where our national revolution has become redundant.

"The tendency today in the ANC is that people are deployed because they allow themselves to be bought, not because they qualify," Thobejane said.

SACP Limpopo secretary Gilbert Kganyago said the ANC was so dysfunctional that it failed to convene ordinary meetings at provincial level.

"The ANC in Limpopo has collapsed to a stage where the ANC PEC (provincial executive committee), the most senior leadership organ in the province, last met in January 2016," Kganyago said.

The ANC in Limpopo secured 69% of the vote in the recent elections, down from 81% in 2011, with the EFF emerging as the official opposition in many municipal councils.

Kganyago said the provincial government under premier Stanely Mathabatha was being looted at all levels without fear or shame in a way similar to the last days of former premier Cassel Mathale's rule.

ANC provincial spokeswoman Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has blasted the SACP leadership in Limpopo as being disgruntled that Kganyago was not returned as mayor of Capricorn district municipality.

"It cannot be that when they are not happy with deployment, they accuse the organisation of corruption and of sidelining them.

"Why did Kganyago not raise that when he was still mayor? It is very petty for leaders to individualise deployment. He was not nominated by the branches to be a mayor," Ntshavheni added.