Lobbying for leadership positions within Cope is gaining momentum, with the party’s structures circulating lists of their preferred candidates.
Cope will move for a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma when Parliament resumes this week, Cope deputy president Mbhazima Shilowa says.
Cope parliamentary chief whip Mbhazima Shilowa’s colleagues in the National Assembly are unhappy with his continued absence from important meetings.
Three Cope sources confirmed that the Mvume Dandala was about to hand in his resignation when Shilowa convinced him to reconsider.
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/ 28 January 2010
The fight for leadership at Cope has finally been thrown into the open, with a pro-Mosiuoa Lekota group circulating a list of preferred leaders.
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/ 26 January 2010
The Congress of the People has rebutted statements made by the party’s youth movement regarding the dissolution of its congress national committee.
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/ 25 January 2010
Cope co-leader Mbhazima Shilowa on Monday said the party needed to work "very hard" to establish branches and develop policies.
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/ 20 January 2010
Cope’s leadership being decided on by consensus, instead of elections, led to questions of legitimacy, the party said on Wednesday.
Some provinces call for early elective conference to disband leadership and end party’s paralysis.
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/ 14 January 2010
Public sentiment is against Eskom’s proposed tariff hike and the parastatal needs to find other funding options, Cope said on Thursday.
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/ 20 November 2009
Cope youth leader Anele Mda has apologised to deputy general secretary Deidre Carter for making racist and sexist remarks, it was reported on Friday.
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/ 4 November 2009
I’m sincerely concerned for Allan Boesak. At the rate he’s going he may well run out of organisations to join, writes Verashni Pillay.
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/ 3 November 2009
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on Tuesday welcomed a decision by cleric Allan Boesak to quit opposition party Cope and join ”God’s party”.
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/ 3 November 2009
Boesak quit Cope on Tuesday, saying its structures were in disarray.
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/ 3 November 2009
Western Cape Congress of the People (Cope) leader Allan Boesak resigned from the party on Tuesday, saying its structures were in disarray.
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/ 26 October 2009
Cope has accused the government of bowing to pressure from left-leaning unions and shifting economic policy towards more socialist agendas.
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/ 26 October 2009
The DA and Cope on Monday called on Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to show he is firmly in control of macroeconomic policy.
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/ 23 October 2009
Cope has been accused of trying to snuggle up to the SA Council of Churches after the ANC’s apparent cold-shouldering of the religious body.
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/ 11 October 2009
Cope on Saturday labelled Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa’s claim of being unaware of the high cost of staying at a five star hotel as ”transparent”.
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/ 22 September 2009
Anele Mda, Cope’s youth leader, has been suspended after allegations that she called the deputy general secretary “a stupid, white token bitch”.
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/ 12 September 2009
Allegations of racism have rocked the third biggest political party in the National Assembly, the Congress of the People (Cope).
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/ 9 September 2009
The two Cope MPs threatened with eviction from their parliamentary houses on Wednesday agreed to move to other official dwellings.
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/ 8 September 2009
An application for the eviction of two Cope members of Parliament was put on hold on Tuesday while their legal teams sought to negotiate a settlement.
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/ 7 September 2009
Cooperation among opposition parties was high on the agenda of a meeting of the Congress of the People’s national leadership.
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/ 4 September 2009
The DA and Cope on Friday welcomed former judge Johann Kriegler’s legal challenge to the dismissal of the misconduct complaint against John Hlophe.
The struggles have divided the party into two camps, one supporting interim president Mosiuoa Lekota, the other his deputy, Mbhazima Shilowa.
The ANC hijacked the return of athletes from the IAAF World Championships in Berlin and turned it into a political rally, Cope said on Wednesday.
Cope’s youth wing has reacted with anger to allegations that party president Mosiuoa Lekota was purging provincial leaders.
The opposition on Wednesday rejected attempts by President Jacob Zuma to defuse the row over his nomination of Judge Sandile Ngcobo as chief justice.
Zuma on Wednesday welcomed a statement by the opposition that they would prefer Dikgang Moseneke to his nominee, Sandile Ngcobo, for chief justice.
Three opposition parties on Tuesday urged President Jacob Zuma to reconsider his nomination for chief justice.
The hearing of an application to evict two Congress of the People MPs from their parliamentary residences was postponed on Tuesday.