CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST – FOR COPE By: Kaizer Mohau
Recent developments within the newly formed political party debatably called “Congress of the People” proves many of us to be correct in our assertion that COPE is just a bunch of Polokwane rejects whose fundamental intention was and remains obsession with power. Whether Lekota or Shilowa spins their lungs out, what they are currently dealing with is precisely what gave birth to COPE. Grindrod and Lynda Odendaal’s resignations mimic what Lekota and others did when they were strategically defeated in Polokwane during the ANC conference of 2007. The fact that Odendaal and Grindrod made far-reaching allegations about the party and the style of leadership in COPE shows that indeed the Congress of the People is suffering from party political identity. When they left the ANC after the re-calling of Thabo Mbeki – in what is known as “serving divorce papers” Lekota claimed that theirs is to defend democracy and our constitution, without clarifying the fundamental basis on which this defence of democracy and the constitution will unfold they went ahead and recruited political Tom, Dick and Harrys of this world – without firstly developing organisational principles, programs and more importantly a political identity unique to their organisation. Perhaps, people are correct to argue that most of them are doing precisely what they claimed is happening in the ANC – while it is too early to want them to behave otherwise – this conduct further indicates that it is them the Lekota gangster who were dictatorial when they were in the ANC and not the ANC which has so far attracted many of their members in recent few Months. If you leave a political party due to some problems imaginary or factual – it is natural that you will join a party which is different and in line with what you want – but in this case the opposite is true – Terror Lekota left the ANC because the ANC did not want him to continue being a dictator – thus ANC members voted him and others out of the leadership. It is my humble view that COPE will never last until the next elections, it will actually die a natural death very soon than expected– its coming to being came as a matter of a political and historical accident – the fact that they had to spend nights, days and weeks trying to conceptualise a name demonstrate how accidental is their existence within the body politic of our country. While its coming to being brought some interesting and exciting political developments with it, however, it is very regrettable that they want to refuse the reality that they are nothing more than a bunch of political lunatics rejected by the majority of those who once followed and appreciated their leadership. I mean political parties are not formed just like baking cakes; they are informed by a number of things especially in countries like ours. Amongst those ingredients is the ideological identity – which most of them knew that they lack but took chances. As a result majority of their supporters and members are now feeling betrayed because nothing organisational is developing except for their leadership. Perhaps they should all rejoin the ANC and learn as much as they can before leaving again – including taking classes on organisational development. By: Kaizer Mohau Ikageng Potchefstroom North West Tel: 072 080 2824 Email: [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
