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/ 10 December 2008
Cope was confident that the court would rule in its favour in naming the party the Congress of the People, Mbhazima Shilowa said on Wednesday.
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/ 10 December 2008
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has withdrawn from the court battle between the ANC and Cope.
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/ 9 December 2008
Cope on Tuesday joined in the chorus of opposition criticism of President Kgalema Motlanthe’s decision to dismiss prosecutions chief Vusi Pikoli.
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/ 9 December 2008
The Congress of the People’s (Cope) inaugural conference in Bloemfontein will not be turned into another Polokwane, with jostling for positions.
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/ 9 December 2008
The wife of suspended Scorpions boss Vusi Pikoli has emerged a key organiser for the Congress of the People.
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/ 8 December 2008
Reports that Governor of the SARB Tito Mboweni is going to become the leader of Cope have been denied by Cope officials.
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/ 8 December 2008
ANC believes there will be further resignations by senior members in the weeks ahead. Cope has been staggering the defections to maximise publicity.
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/ 7 December 2008
The Congress of the People breakaway faction of the ANC suggested on Sunday it would adopt many of the economic policies of the ruling party.
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/ 7 December 2008
Cope has focused its resources on the Western Cape where it is contesting 27 of 41 by-elections taking place nationally.
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/ 5 December 2008
The Congress of the People’s long-awaited policy document is expected to be unveiled on Tuesday after plans to do so on Friday were cancelled.
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/ 5 December 2008
‘No worse there is none," was the anguished cry of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins — and it is an apt description of the crisis in Zimbabwe.
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/ 3 December 2008
The IEC will oppose an urgent application by the ANC against the use of the name Congress of the People (Cope), it was reported on Wednesday.
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/ 3 December 2008
The Congress of the People in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) wants the ANC to reimburse it after allegedly disrupting a branch meeting.
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/ 3 December 2008
If Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will not step down voluntarily he should be removed by force, said senior Cope member Philip Dexter on Tuesday.
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/ 29 November 2008
Task teams and advisers have been deployed to Cope hotspots to troubleshoot.
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/ 28 November 2008
The Congress of the People (Cope) on Friday announced another four recruits in the Western Cape. They included former premier Peter Marais.
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/ 26 November 2008
The ANC has filed an urgent high court application to stop a braekaway movement from using the name Congress of the People (Cope).
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/ 26 November 2008
The Congress of the People on Tuesday apologised unconditionally to ANC president Jacob Zuma for remarks made by two of its leaders at a meeting.
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/ 25 November 2008
South African political parties have spoken out against political intolerance and violence ahead of next year’s general elections.
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/ 25 November 2008
KZN ANC provincial secretary: Lekota’s continued criticism of the ANC ”makes it difficult for us to appeal for discipline from the people”.
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/ 23 November 2008
The ANC on Saturday said it was dismayed and deeply concerned about allegedly ”inflammatory and defamatory” remarks made by Congress of the People.
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/ 22 November 2008
The Eastern Cape ANC has clamped down on possible defections to the Congress of the People by asking scores of branch leaders to pledge loyalty.
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/ 21 November 2008
The ANC still intends to pursue court action against Mosiuoa Lekota’s breakaway party for naming itself ”Congress of the People”.
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/ 20 November 2008
The Congress of the People has gained another high-profile politician. Simon Grindrod from the Independent Democrats has announced his resignation.
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/ 20 November 2008
The Congress of the People (Cope) has refused an ANC demand to stop using its new name, the ANC’s attorney said on Thursday.
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/ 20 November 2008
The deadline for breakaway party Cope to respond to a demand from the ANC that it stops using the name Congress of the People expires on Thursday.
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/ 18 November 2008
The ANC has served legal papers on Mosuioa Lekota’s breakaway party for using the name Congress of the People (Cope), officials said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 November 2008
Rumours that a KZN minister is expected to resign from the ANC on Tuesday and join Cope is ”a blatant lie”, a Cope provincial coordinator says.
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/ 18 November 2008
It is a mystery why we spend billions financing 20 universities if we have to rely on Harvard professors to advise on macroeconomic strategy.
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/ 17 November 2008
The ANC is in the process of raising concerns with the IEC over Cope’s name, ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus said on Monday.
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/ 17 November 2008
SA’s president, its premiers and its mayors should be voted in directly by the electorate and not appointed by a party hierarchy, says Mosiuoa Lekota.
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/ 17 November 2008
The Congress of the People aims to be a progressive party of the left.