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/ 20 February 2009
The head of the Methodist church of Southern Africa, Bishop Mvume Dandala, has been nominated as Cope’s presidential candidate.
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/ 18 February 2009
Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota is considering a legal challenge against the safety and security minister’s decision to take away his bodyguards.
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/ 16 February 2009
The ANC has degenerated into a ”mad house”, said eThekwini ANC councillor Lungi Cele on Monday as she announced her defection to Cope.
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/ 16 February 2009
The aftershocks from former ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus’s revelations to the M&G continue to reverberate through South African politics.
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/ 10 February 2009
Director General in the Presidency Frank Chikane will not take up a position in the Congress of the People (Cope), he said on Tuesday.
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/ 10 February 2009
Ignoring the axe over her head, Cope’s youth leader builds her ‘brand’.
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/ 10 February 2009
The denouement of the ‘second transition’ is greatly anticipated, but it may contain elements of brutal ruthlessness.
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/ 8 February 2009
SA’s former deputy president, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, is preparing to leave the ANC and join Cope, it was reported on Sunday.
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/ 8 February 2009
The ANC is tightening its grip on members suspected of working underground for the opposition, in particular the Congress of the People.
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/ 4 February 2009
Will he or won’t he announce a poll date? That is the question observers are asking ahead of the president’s State of the Nation speech on Friday.
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/ 2 February 2009
Plans are afoot to launch a trade union movement, which will have strong links with the Congress of the People.
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/ 31 January 2009
The implication is that voters still prefer the ANC, despite councillors having rejected the party.
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/ 30 January 2009
Citizens of the country should be able to elect their president directly, the Congress of the People said on Thursday.
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/ 29 January 2009
The African National Congress’s national executive committee will meet on Thursday to discuss the party’s list of parliamentary nominations.
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/ 28 January 2009
Cosatu on Wednesday vowed to distribute its anti-Cope booklet to as many places as possible.
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/ 27 January 2009
A fierce political battle has erupted between the ANC and Cope to win the Eastern Cape, which is also the birthplace of famed anti-apartheid leaders.
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/ 26 January 2009
Cope has lodged a formal complaint about ANC NEC member Tokyo Sexwale’s ”witchcraft” comments made at the weekend.
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/ 26 January 2009
Election manifestos have very little impact on voters, political analysts said on Monday, after a flurry of manifesto launches over the weekend.
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/ 24 January 2009
The Constitution will be ”fearlessly defended” and the rule of law upheld by a Cope government, said the party’s election manifesto.
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/ 24 January 2009
A "stabilising fund" is needed for industries under pressure due to the global financial crisis, the Congress of the People said on Friday.
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/ 23 January 2009
The ANC holding an Eastern Cape election manifesto rally at the same time as Cope is a sign of desperation, Cope said on Friday.
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/ 23 January 2009
The election manifesto launch this weekend of the Congress of the People will not be televised live by the SABC, the public broadcaster has told Cope.
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/ 21 January 2009
The ANC in the Eastern Cape is attaching no significance to the increased activity in recent weeks by its rival the Congress of the People.
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/ 21 January 2009
Cope provided the gap that the ”imperialists” have been seeking since 1994 to regain a foothold in South Africa.
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/ 18 January 2009
Senior African National Congress policymakers are warming to the idea of major electoral reforms, the Mail & Guardian has been told.
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/ 16 January 2009
The ANC and Jacob Zuma are expected to spill the beans about other corruption in the arms deal when they make representations to the NPA.
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/ 15 January 2009
Cope is in favour of reinstating the Scorpions in line with the recommendations of the Khampepe commission, the party said on Thursday.
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/ 14 January 2009
Former president Thabo Mbeki plans to turn down his place on the ANC’s Gauteng list of candidates for the National Assembly.
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/ 13 January 2009
Cosatu on Tuesday warned Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota that if he continued threatening the rights of the workers he would be in for a ”big surprise”.
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/ 12 January 2009
Opposition parties on Monday called for African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma to have his day in court as soon as possible.
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/ 11 January 2009
The ANC election manifesto was "long on promises and short on credibility", Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Saturday.
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/ 10 January 2009
The ANC vowed on Saturday to create jobs, improve education and health and fight crime in a shift to the left at the launch of its manifesto.