Cope said it regarded the SABC’s R11-million payout to former group CEO Dali Mpofu as an insult to the public broadcaster’s employees.
The two-year-old New Vision Party on Saturday announced its merger with the Congress of the People at a press conference in Pretoria.
Opposition parties have urged Jacob Zuma to withdraw his statement on the nomination of Sandile Ngcobo to replace outgoing Chief Justice Pius Langa.
Unity talks between opposition parties are under way in bid to challenge the ruling party at the polls, they said on Sunday.
Cope parliamentary leader Mvume Dandala had offered to resign from the position because of internal squabbles that threatened to rip apart the party.
The National Press Club has declared the Congress of the People and Eskom joint winners of its newsmaker of the year 2008 award.
Popcru has accused Cope’s Willie Madisha of inciting correctional services staff to reject government’s occupation specific dispensation offer.
Call for early conference as young leaders grow impatient with party infighting. Mmanaledi Mataboge reports.
The Congress of the People has placed before Parliament the issues that we believe will generate a new agenda for our society.
Listening to leaders of the Congress of the People denying that there is a leadership tussle within the party is becoming annoying.
Congress of the People parliamentary leader Mvume Dandala has dismissed media reports that he might resign from his position.
The Congress of the People have "co-opted" the former deputy president of the country, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, into its national leadership.
Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota on Friday again denied there was a leadership tussle between himself and his first deputy Mbhazima Shilowa.
The national leadership of Cope gathered at its headquarters on Friday to tackle the problems facing the fledgling party.
Cope leaders Mosiuoa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa said on Thursday they did not know why their number three, Lynda Odendaal, quit this week.
Simon Grindrod — the former head of the Cope’s election campaign — seems determined to air what he believes is the party’s dirty laundry in public.
Simon Grindrod, a major figure in the Congress of the People, on Tuesday launched an attack against the party’s leadership.
Congress of the People (Cope) second deputy president Lynda Odendaal on Tuesday resigned from both the party and Parliament.
Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota has embarked on a campaign to build branches for his party in preparation for the 2011 local government elections.
A senior Congress of the People official has admitted that ”division and indecision” are taking their toll on the party’s support.
Political neophyte Congress of the People is in the throes of a financial and leadership crisis, reports said on Friday.
Opposition leaders were quick to dismiss President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address in Parliament on Wednesday as ”a wish list”.
SACP chief and Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has also raised the issue of Cope’s windfall from the Vodacom listing in alliance circles.
Cope’s president Terror Lekota said on Saturday South Africa’s democracy is being undermined by a culture of intolerance within the ANC.
Former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka is not a member of Cope, according to a report in the Financial Mail.
Numsa leaders launched a scathing attack against Cope on Monday, saying its founders had inferiority complexes and were ”honorary whites”.
The election of Jacob Zuma as president of the country was challenged on Wednesday by the nomination of the presidential candidate of Cope.
Preparations began before dawn on Monday to welcome members of South Africa’s fourth Parliament for a session likely to be more robust than the last.
The party’s money troubles have partly been addressed by the fact that it will have 30 paid MPs in the National Assembly.
The ”Stop Zuma” campaign denied the ANC a two-thirds majority in the recent elections, DA leader Helen Zille said on Friday.
The Freedom Front Plus has its own ideas about why the smaller opposition parties did so badly in the general election last week.
The ANC was happy with its performance in the election despite missing a two-thirds majority by a whisker, the party said on Saturday.