Even JESUS Christ was born at the right place, right time with the RIGHT STAR over Bethlehem.

All these things didnt happen for COPE.

So if you want to vote for corruption, keep on doing what you’re doing…

Unelected leaders:
Eventually COPE will hold proper internal elections and their leaders will be democratically endorsed by the membership.

Disreputable public figures:
Boesak has gone. Peter Marais is long gone. A few more dodgy characters to go, and COPE will have nobody to be embarrassed by.

Policy:
Is being formulated in detail, based on the Freedom Charter and the Constitution of SA and the principles of Social Democracy.

Growth:
Kit’s fears of “Infant mortality” are unfounded, and Ian Shaw’s comment is plain wrong. COPE activists are forming new branches across the country all the time. The stats aren’t available
but I suspect that in the past six months COPE has formed more new branches across the country than ALL other parties put together. Just compare activity in campus elections and on FaceBook.

Race:
Sorry “Blip”, but sadly race is still an issue for South African voters, and the DA has hit it’s ceiling. COPE as a black dominated multiracial party is the only hope of becoming a viable alternative.

Anger?
bitterness?
irrelevance?
power struggles?
denial?
forked tounges?
hipocricy?
no elections?
no branches?

yawn….zzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZ

Now you should be giving us a post-mortem or perhaps a rational analysis of what Cope has achieved so far.

Your still-born party is nowhere to be seen on the political landscape. It’s indeed tragic that the mickey-mouse party only surfaces during joint press conferences with DA.

As we said before the elections, Cope was a project to fast-track some of your leaders to the pig trough and to ensure others were guaranteed a lease on tender life by Cope. Otherwise, the political have-beens would be nonentities had it not been for the advent of Cope.

It’s a matter of time before this ersatz DA, policy-less and ideology-free party gets swallowed by DA.

As I’ve stated before, it’s the Left or the Pan-Africanist and Black Consciousness formations that can pose some serious threat to the ANC hegemony.

Cope should do some serious self-introspection. In 2014 there won’t be exaggerated, hyped-up, staggered and stage-managed resignations from the ANC. The media hype and good will is no more…

Sentletse, you’ve every right to associate with whichever party but you, JJ Tabane and Khaya Dlanga are simply wasting your brains in Cope! Maybe you shouldn’t have nailed you colours to the mast like you’ve done. It must be awkward to return to the real world!

It is like a cancer of a deadly kind, these former ANC people.

You simply donot want to accept that the premise for COPE’s formationwas shaky right from the beginning.What do they stand for?

No wonder the party will be swallowed by DA in no time.

The more i listen to some of COPE’s pronouncements the more i respect DA,at least they stand for something!

Have an ideology,screwed as it may be, but have one.

The 16th of December, is a day where the women of South Africa celebrate their great grandmothers for filling the guns with powder and singing, “We shall overcome!!”