  The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the largest radio telescope ever
built, aiming to provide collecting area larger than 1 km$^2$. The SKA will
have two independent instruments, SKA-LOW comprising of dipoles organized as
aperture arrays in Australia and SKA-MID comprising of dishes in South Africa.
Currently the phase-1 of SKA, referred to as SKA1, is in its late design stage
and construction is expected to start in 2020. Both SKA1-LOW (frequency range
of 50-350 MHz) and SKA1-MID Bands 1, 2, and 5 (frequency ranges of 350-1050,
950-1760, and 4600-15300 MHz, respectively) are important for solar
observations. In this paper we present SKA's unique capabilities in terms of
spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution, as well as sensitivity and show
that they have the potential to provide major new insights in solar physics
topics of capital importance including (i) the structure and evolution of the
solar corona, (ii) coronal heating, (iii) solar flare dynamics including
particle acceleration and transport, (iv) the dynamics and structure of coronal
mass ejections, and (v) the solar aspects of space weather. Observations of the
Sun jointly with the new generation of ground-based and space-borne instruments
promise unprecedented discoveries.
