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/ 10 January 2009
The ANC plans to ensure that the practice of “jobs for pals” is something of the past and said it would review the government tendering system.
The Congress of the People (Cope) has suspended a member accused of sexually abusing young girls in Beaufort West, the party said on Wednesday.
Police in Mpumalanga had to be called to restore order at a Congress of the People meeting in Mbuzini after ANC members stormed the venue.
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/ 20 December 2008
Rams Mabote likens the recent events between the ANC and Cope to South African soccer’s historic drama four decades ago.
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/ 19 December 2008
The Congress of the People (Cope) was officially confirmed as a political party on Friday, the party said in a statement.
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/ 19 December 2008
Opposition parties, including Cope, could obtain as much as 40% of combined votes in next year’s general election, according to a survey.
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/ 19 December 2008
Cope was formally launched as a party only this week. An NEC member said it dawned on the ANC that they are the ones keeping Cope in the news.
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/ 18 December 2008
Cope on Thursday denied that it is against black empowerment policies, saying its position on affirmative action has been ”misinterpreted”.
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/ 17 December 2008
The Congress of the People (Cope) will launch its election manifesto in January next year, the party’s leadership team said on Wednesday.
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/ 17 December 2008
The Black Lawyers Association have expressed concern over Mosiuoa Lekota’s statement on affirmative action, labelling it a ‘threat’
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/ 16 December 2008
Cope vowed to rewrite history as the movement’s battle with the ANC for votes kicked off at competing party rallies in Bloemfontein on Tuesday.
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/ 16 December 2008
President Kgalema Motlanthe may face an uphill battle in his attempt to persuade Parliament to rubber-stamp his decision to fire Vusi Pikoli.
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/ 16 December 2008
The interim leadership of the Congress of the People were on Tuesday confirmed in their positions. The leadership group was extended to 12 people.
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/ 16 December 2008
Former struggle icon Allan Boesak on Tuesday became the latest high-profile figure to join the newly formed Congress of the People.
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/ 16 December 2008
Reverend Allan Boesak is expected to join the Congress of the People (Cope) on Tuesday during the last day of the party’s inaugural conference.
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/ 15 December 2008
Mosiuoa Lekota was likely to emerge as president of Cope as the new party on Monday chose leaders to take it into an election battle against the ANC.
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/ 15 December 2008
Agriculture and affirmative action. That was all it took for Piet Grobler, a retired farmer from Thabazimbi in Limpopo, to join Cope.
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/ 15 December 2008
Cope wants two layers of leadership, which will ensure that those with technical skills are involved in policy implementation, says the new party.
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/ 14 December 2008
Bloemfontein could be the end of the road for Anele Mda as the leader of the Congress of the People youth wing.
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/ 14 December 2008
Quoting William Yeats, Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota on Sunday opened the conference of the Congress of the People at the University of Free State.
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/ 14 December 2008
The Congress of the People (Cope) on Sunday said it was not intimidated by the African National Congress’s mass campaign in Bloemfontein.
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/ 13 December 2008
The interim leadership of the Congress of the People (Cope) claims the African National Congress has instilled fear in communities
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/ 13 December 2008
The registration of delegates for Cope’s inaugural conference in Bloemfontein was running smoothly, general secretary Charlotte Lobe said on Saturday.
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/ 13 December 2008
Delegates at Cope’s first conference in Bloemfontein were being guided through the registration process by about 1pm on Saturday.
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/ 13 December 2008
The results were made more humiliating for the ANC by the fact that the breakaway Congress of the People won 10 wards in its debut electoral test.
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/ 12 December 2008
A court on Friday dismissed with costs an application by the ANC to stop a breakaway group using the name Congress of the People.
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/ 12 December 2008
Cope leaders in Limpopo have accused Kennedy Tshivhase, the ANC member of the provincial legislature, of threatening chiefs with demotion.
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/ 11 December 2008
Cope, born out of Thabo Mbeki’s political demise, will lay its ideological cards on the table next week when it formally launches itself.
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/ 11 December 2008
The Congress of the People (Cope) won 10 of 27 contested municipal by-elections in the Western Cape, electoral officials said on Thursday.
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/ 11 December 2008
It is improper for public servants to be appointed on the basis of political affiliation, Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota said on Wednesday.
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/ 11 December 2008
The first issue is: to whom is election coverage supposed to be fair? Each political party naturally believes that the obligation is owed to it.
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/ 11 December 2008
Where did the ANCYL get the power and audacity to attack Motlanthe, the judiciary and so much more with impunity?