A bid to prevent Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota from taking up a Parliamentary post was dismissed by a court on Tuesday.
The Cope faction supporting deputy president Mbhazima Shilowa on Tuesday finally served court papers on the party’s president Mosiuoa Lekota.
The Congress of the People (Cope) in Gauteng is threatening legal action against party president Mosiuoa Lekota over the holding of meetings.
Senior Cope leaders aligned to its president, Mosiuoa Lekota, this week developed a plan to strengthen Lekota’s hold on the party.
Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota will meet other executive members of the party to discuss his reinstatement, he said on Wednesday.
Congress of the People (Cope) deputy president Mbhazima Shilowa said on Monday he did not recognise Mosiuoa Lekota as party president.
Both sides in the war dividing the Congress of the People (Cope) say they will obey the courts.
Mosiuoa Lekota was still the president of the Congress of the People, the high court in Johannesburg ruled on Sunday.
Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota could be removed by a unanimous vote of no-confidence because he was not elected to the position, a court heard.
The Congress of the People’s constitution does not provide for a vote of no confidence, the High Court in Johannesburg heard on Friday.
Congress of the People acting president Mbhazima Shilowa on Thursday filed an answering affidavit to Mosiuoa Lekota’s court challenge.
Efforts to solve Cope’s leadership conundrum will continue in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Friday.
Cope’s parliamentary leader on Wednesday refused to comment on whether he would resign from his post due to the turbulence in the party.
Former Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota has filed an application in the Johannesburg High Court in a bid to hold on to his position as leader.
Mosiuoa Lekota was on Monday officially served notice of the Congress of the People’s vote of no confidence in him as its president.
Congress of the People (Cope) leader Mosiuoa Lekota will take legal action to overturn a vote of no-confidence in him.
Congress of the People (Cope) president Mosiua Lekota on Sunday affirmed his position in the party and dismissed a vote of no confidence.
Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota and his supporters abandoned the party’s national congress in Centurion on Saturday evening.
The High Court in Johannesburg issued an interdict on Saturday preventing the Cope electoral conference from moving forward.
The Cope congress turned violent on Saturday after party leaders supporting current president Mosiuoa Lekota served notice of a court interdict.
Cope’s leadership will be elected — seemingly without president Mosiuoa Lekota — as he was seeking an interdict to stop the conference on Saturday.
Cope kicked off its national congress on Friday afternoon six hours late, and speakers then tried to unite a party polarised by the leadership race.
There will be no split in the Congress of the People (Cope) over a leadership battle, Eastern Cape chair Andile Nkuhlu said on Thursday.
A group of Cope leaders from seven provinces, the youth movement and the women’s movement have confirmed reports that a faction is planning to split.
Bitter infighting in Cope continued on Thursday, with the party’s president, Mosiuoa Lekota, accused of trying to derail a national conference.
Cope’s inaugural elective congress will go ahead as planned despite threats of boycotts and legal action to stop it, the party said on Monday.
Cope needed to reconnect with its people, the party’s deputy president, Mbhazima Shilowa, said on Sunday as he launched his party presidential bid.
Amid controversy over a leadership tussle that could destabilise the Congress of the People, the party said over the weekend that all is well.
Mbhazima Shilowa says financial mismanagement allegations made against him are baseless.
Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota suspects the forensic audit he is calling for into the possible fraud in his party’s finances "ruffled a few feathers".
The Congress Of The People (Cope) in KwaZulu-Natal said it was concerned about mud-slinging in the party ahead of its elective
conference.
The signs were good for taking the relationship between opposition parties to the next level, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Saturday.