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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
The recession has forced the ANC to rethink its election manifesto. Rapule Tabane spoke to the party’s head of policy, Jeff Radebe.
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/ 12 December 2008
We encourage readers to send letters to the president to tell him that we want a commission of inquiry into the arms deal, as well as BAE Systems.
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/ 11 December 2008
Cope, born out of Thabo Mbeki’s political demise, will lay its ideological cards on the table next week when it formally launches itself.
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/ 11 December 2008
Health services, industrial policy, rural development, education and employment will be key policies addressed in the ANC manifesto.
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/ 11 December 2008
The Congress of the People (Cope) won 10 of 27 contested municipal by-elections in the Western Cape, electoral officials said on Thursday.
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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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/ 11 December 2008
The first issue is: to whom is election coverage supposed to be fair? Each political party naturally believes that the obligation is owed to it.
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/ 11 December 2008
Where did the ANCYL get the power and audacity to attack Motlanthe, the judiciary and so much more with impunity?
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/ 9 December 2008
The Congress of the People’s (Cope) inaugural conference in Bloemfontein will not be turned into another Polokwane, with jostling for positions.
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/ 9 December 2008
The wife of suspended Scorpions boss Vusi Pikoli has emerged a key organiser for the Congress of the People.
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/ 9 December 2008
Another senior SACP leader, Gauteng secretary Zico Tamela, faces the axe after being suspended from the party at a recent central committee meeting.
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/ 8 December 2008
Reports that Governor of the SARB Tito Mboweni is going to become the leader of Cope have been denied by Cope officials.
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/ 8 December 2008
ANC believes there will be further resignations by senior members in the weeks ahead. Cope has been staggering the defections to maximise publicity.
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/ 7 December 2008
Cope has focused its resources on the Western Cape where it is contesting 27 of 41 by-elections taking place nationally.
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/ 5 December 2008
Ten Free State farmers, out of about 300 expected, turned out to hear Cope chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota speak in Trompsburg on Friday.
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/ 5 December 2008
The Congress of the People’s long-awaited policy document is expected to be unveiled on Tuesday after plans to do so on Friday were cancelled.
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/ 3 December 2008
The IEC will oppose an urgent application by the ANC against the use of the name Congress of the People (Cope), it was reported on Wednesday.
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/ 3 December 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) on Wednesday pulled out of a public debate on the protection and defence of the Constitution.
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/ 3 December 2008
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has once again challenged African National Congress president Jacob Zuma to a public debate.
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/ 3 December 2008
The Congress of the People in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) wants the ANC to reimburse it after allegedly disrupting a branch meeting.
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/ 1 December 2008
The ANC will not plunder the pockets of South Africans to realise the ambitious goals set out in its election manifesto, it said on Monday.
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/ 30 November 2008
Mmanaledi Mataboge speaks to an ANC youth league member who has no regrets about his statement that Cope members should be killed.
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/ 28 November 2008
The ANC is not considering imposing a quota of SACP and Cosatu members for its parliamentary list, it said on Friday.
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/ 28 November 2008
The Congress of the People (Cope) on Friday announced another four recruits in the Western Cape. They included former premier Peter Marais.
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/ 28 November 2008
DA leader Helen Zille appropriates non-racialism as the ANC sheds it.
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/ 28 November 2008
A rundown of who’s in pole position to take the provincial top spots come election time.
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/ 28 November 2008
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal on the political documentary Behind the Rainbow and the disappointing Mr Bones II.
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/ 27 November 2008
If the SABC can rise to the challenge of covering the election to public acclaim, that would help consolidate its autonomy in general
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/ 27 November 2008
Trevor Manuel is signalling that he will stand his ground on economic policy. Comment by Nic Dawes and Lynley Donnelly.
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/ 26 November 2008
The ANC has filed an urgent high court application to stop a braekaway movement from using the name Congress of the People (Cope).