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/ 16 December 2008
Standing just 1,5 metres tall, the blonde Lynda Odendaal on Tuesday burst on to South Africa’s political landscape with an explosion of energy.
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/ 16 December 2008
Cope vowed to rewrite history as the movement’s battle with the ANC for votes kicked off at competing party rallies in Bloemfontein on Tuesday.
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/ 16 December 2008
The African National Congress still works for national unity and reconciliation, its president Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
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/ 16 December 2008
President Kgalema Motlanthe may face an uphill battle in his attempt to persuade Parliament to rubber-stamp his decision to fire Vusi Pikoli.
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/ 16 December 2008
The interim leadership of the Congress of the People were on Tuesday confirmed in their positions. The leadership group was extended to 12 people.
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/ 15 December 2008
Mosiuoa Lekota was likely to emerge as president of Cope as the new party on Monday chose leaders to take it into an election battle against the ANC.
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/ 15 December 2008
A major announcement on a new Cope leader is expected on Monday night at the end of the second day of the inaugural conference of Cope.
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/ 15 December 2008
Agriculture and affirmative action. That was all it took for Piet Grobler, a retired farmer from Thabazimbi in Limpopo, to join Cope.
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/ 15 December 2008
Cope wants two layers of leadership, which will ensure that those with technical skills are involved in policy implementation, says the new party.
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/ 14 December 2008
Quoting William Yeats, Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota on Sunday opened the conference of the Congress of the People at the University of Free State.
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/ 13 December 2008
The interim leadership of the Congress of the People (Cope) claims the African National Congress has instilled fear in communities
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/ 13 December 2008
The registration of delegates for Cope’s inaugural conference in Bloemfontein was running smoothly, general secretary Charlotte Lobe said on Saturday.
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/ 13 December 2008
Delegates at Cope’s first conference in Bloemfontein were being guided through the registration process by about 1pm on Saturday.
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/ 11 December 2008
It is improper for public servants to be appointed on the basis of political affiliation, Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota said on Wednesday.
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/ 1 December 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma is suffering just like Jesus Christ did, provincial leader Ace Magashule said in an interview published on Monday.
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/ 27 November 2008
Cosatu warned on Thursday of the potential for violence amid attempts by the Congress of the People breakaway party to form a new union federation.
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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
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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/ 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 (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 SAPS has served ANC breakaway leader Mosiuoa Lekota with a notice that his bodyguards will be withdrawn, officials said on Tuesday.
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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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/ 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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/ 15 November 2008
The Congress of People (Cope) was ready to contest the elections in 2009, Mbhazima Shilowa, the party’s deputy chairperson, said on Saturday.
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/ 15 November 2008
While Mosiuoa Lekota’s Cope movement has yet to launch and the DA is relaunching this weekend, Zuma has hit the ground running.
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/ 14 November 2008
The ANC is not threatened by the new political party formed by dissidents, its policy committee chairperson, Jeff Radebe, said on Friday.
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/ 14 November 2008
A meeting that was scheduled to be addressed by Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota was disrupted by hundreds of ANC supporters, news reports said on Friday.
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/ 14 November 2008
Former ANC communications chief Smuts Ngonyama has slammed a report that his secretary was a spy for the Cope breakaway party.
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/ 13 November 2008
Smuts Ngonyama said he had resigned from the ANC because he was no longer able to tolerate the recent disrespect of authority in the party.