Cope has accused the ANC of abusing its power after former DA leader Dr Chris Liebenberg’s swearing-in ceremony was delayed for the third time.
Agang SA and Cope both presented election manifestos over the weekend, envisaging active governance and oversight by individual citizens.
More than 800 of Cope’s Mbhazima Shilowa’s supporters will join the United Democratic Movement, its leader Bantu Holomisa has announced.
Cope chief whip Nkosinathi Kuluta is still in his Eastern Cape legislative seat almost four weeks after defecting to the ANC.
At least eight MPs and a large number of MPLs are getting ready to leave Cope ahead of the upcoming elections.
A group of opposition parties plan to lay criminal charges against SABC acting chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
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Vanessa Hani has defected from Agang SA to the Congress of the People, says Cope.
The Democratic Alliance has said most of SA’s opposition parties want a coalition to win 30% of the vote, as well as Gauteng and the Northern Cape.
Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota has welcomed the merge between DA and Agang, saying it would strengthen democracy.
A Cope member of the Gauteng legislature Clara Sodlulashe-Motau says the party’s deputy president can’t force people to renew their memberships.
In an effort to reinvent itself for the next elections, Cope will flush out those who supported expelled former deputy president Mbhazima Shilowa.
Is Cope back from the dead or is its first elective congress another non-starter, asks Sarah Evans from the sidelines of its Boksburg assembly.
Disillusioned ANC backers feel they don’t have credible options, and a union-based body à la Brazil’s Workers’ Party could rebalance SA’s democracy.
The Inkatha Freedom Party says it doesn’t form part of a new coalition, the Collective for Democracy, that was formed to contest the 2014 elections.
Five opposition parties have formed a coalition, called the Collective for Democracy, to contest the general elections next year.
Cope’s former parliamentary national treasurer has appeared in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court on several charges, including fraud.
Affirming its opinion that Jacob Zuma makes no distinction between state funds and his own, Cope has spoken out about his "compulsive" spending.
Cope, the DA and Freedom Front Plus have derided Cyril Ramaphosa for using threats of a return of the "boers" as a campaigning platform in Limpopo.
Mosiuoa Lekota has won the case for the Congress of the People’s leadership after fighting Mbhazima Shilowa for the position since 2010.
Protesters marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to present the government with their demands for better legal representation.
Cope was not in a position to hold a credible elective congress in May 2010, party president Mosiuoa Lekota has told the high court in Johannesburg.
Among the many matters in the South Gauteng High Court is an application by Mosiuoa Lekota to be declared Cope president.
Another opposition party has spoken out about the Limpopo textbooks saga, claiming there are still schools in the province yet to receive textbooks.
Seemingly out of nowhere, the ANC had social media savvy. The reason was not hard to find, write Verashni Pillay and Mmanaledi Mataboge.
Former Congress of the People and ANC MP Nosimo Balindlela has joined the Democratic Alliance, the party’s leader Helen Zille has announced.
Sacked ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has told Friends of the Youth League supporters he will not form another party nor leave the ANC.
Dirk Feldman was arrested for drunken disorderliness after allegedly trying to open an exit door mid-flight on an SAA plane to India last month.
Mosiuoa Lekota is set to file papers seeking a reversal of the decision by Parliament to expel him following comments about The Spear painting.
The DA and Cope have said they want Angie Motshekga to answer to allegations that textbooks are being dumped and destroyed in Limpopo.
A cowed National Assembly means political interests prevail over those of the populace, writes The Congress of the People’s Mosiuoa Lekota.
Philip Dexter says his return to the ANC, three years after defecting, was due in part to the Cope’s quest for cooperation with the DA.