Former Congress of the People (Cope) parliamentary leader Mvume Dandala has asked the Methodist Church of Southern Africa to take him back.

Congress of the People’s (Cope) Mvume Dandala formally resigned as its parliamentary leader and as an MP with immediate effect on Thursday.

The resignation of Cope’s parliamentary leader Mvume Dandala will be discussed at a meeting of the party’s congress national committee 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.

Cope parliamentary leader Mvume Dandala had offered to resign from the position because of internal squabbles that threatened to rip apart the party.

The Congress of the People has placed before Parliament the issues that we believe will generate a new agenda for our society.

The election of Jacob Zuma as president of the country was challenged on Wednesday by the nomination of the presidential candidate of Cope.

In the final tally, the African National Congress dominates the National Assembly but misses its two-thirds majority by an inch.

South Africans voted on Wednesday in an election that poses the toughest test for the ANC since apartheid ended 15 years ago.

Cope is confident it will obtain the majority of votes in Wednesday’s election, presidential candidate of the party Mvume Dandala said on Tuesday.

In a last-ditch effort to sway undecided voters, the Congress of the People held its final election rally in Seshego in Limpopo on Sunday.

At its birth last year, some pundits thought the Congress of the People might even draw enough support to prevent the ANC winning a majority.

Cope will win the Eastern Cape province in the April 22 election, party leader Mvume Dandala said in East London on Thursday.

Cope presidential candidate Mvume Dandala hit the campaign trail in Soweto on Thursday.

As the ANC played host to members of minority communities in Sandton on Saturday night, Cope’s Mvume Dandala took his campaign to the Free State.

South Africa is not a federation of tribes, the Congress of the People’s presidential candidate Mvume Dandala said on Friday night.

The choice of Dr Mvume Dandala as the presidential candidate of the Congress of the People seems to have sparked a religious war with the ruling party

The Congress of the People’s Mvume Dandala moved his party’s election to the rails this week as he mingled with commuters.

Mvume Dandala, Cope’s presidential candidate, failed to elicit much excitement when he caught the train from Pretoria on Wednesday morning.

SA risks undermining the rule of law if prosecutors drop graft charges against ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma, the Congress of the People said.