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Cope 'counter-revolutionary'

2009-01-09 13:44

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Freddy Molotsi, News24 User

Cope is counter-revolutionary.

The revelation that was made by the ANC national spokesperson Jessie Duarte about Allan Boesak's demands of a lucrative position was a clear indication that Cope is a party of angry people whose interest is to have their hands in the resources of the state.

Allan Boesak's unreasonable demands to the ANC smack of opportunism of the highest order and hypocrisy. What we have observed in the recent past week is a counter-revolution in the making.

The event of the past weeks will not deter the ANC from discharging its responsibility, which is that of galvanising support for its own victory at the 2009 general election. The ANC, unlike Cope and other opposition parties, is not faced with a challenge of ideological bankruptcy.

It was difficult for Cope to define their character and ideology during their conference. It is astonishing that Cope has reached an ideological cul-de-sac before its formal launch.

This is a party of brothers and sisters and ladies and gentlemen.

The "political advisor" of Cope, Thabo Mbeki, prepared a discussion document for the ANC's 49th National Conference (December 1994), Entitled From Resistance to Reconstruction: Tasks of the ANC in the New Epoch of the Democratic Transformation. The lengthy document provided a comprehensive look into the views of the future leader of the ANC and the country.

Thabo Mbeki's prophesy was illustrated by divorce papers that were served on the ANC by chief dissident, Mr Terror Lekota. Today the ANC breathes fresh air because traitors and spies like George, Shilowa, Hlongwane, Madisha, Dexter, Mda, Nkuhlu, Num, Ngonyama, Ramatlakane and others left the movement to form their elite party called Cope.

The behaviour of the dissidents signals that of the Gang of Eight who wanted to change the direction of the ANC from been a discipline force of the left to a reactionary organisation. The attack on ANC President, Jacob Zuma by the dissident is tantamount to what the Gang of Eight did to OR Tambo when he refused to succumb to the counter-revolution.

The ANC is commended by its revolutionary front-troopers for observing discipline within its structures by refusing to allow anarcho-syndicalism to play itself within the movement.

It is evident that many of the comrades who are crying foul about the ANC's restructuring of government were those who refused to be part of the ANC political incubation programme which was intended at raising their level of political consciousness because they were the product of mass recruitment before conferences.

Cope is a moribund organisation without anything to offer except to provoked the masses of our people by calling for the scrapping of affirmative action.

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Point Blank 1/9/2009 1:50:40 PM
Give it up and accept the inevatible, the ANC have had their turn and they blew it. All this ANC propaganda wants to make me sick, accept defeat graciously and let's just concentrate on making South Africa a place for all and not the elite.

Houston 1/9/2009 1:52:41 PM
lots of words with very little substance - where ever you used the word cope, you could replace it with anc, and vica versa - peas in a pod they are.

pro change 1/9/2009 1:53:30 PM
to me its irronic that ANC supporters try to defend the action of its leaders and try to break down any opposition. according to me if the Anc arn't scared of cope (like they stated) why do all of there supporters and members make suck a fuss about cope. If cope truely have nothing to offer its ok to me because for the last 14 years the ANC also didn't offer us anything

Sonny 1/9/2009 1:53:52 PM
Good heavens, after reading this I realised you work with batteries and a start button. Does the ANC pay you to write such crap? Just hope the batteries are not rechargeable!

Crackerjackjack 1/9/2009 1:57:17 PM
Geez...I wonder who is an avid ANC supporter

TB 1/9/2009 2:01:42 PM
ANC vs Cope supporters are sounding like Palistine vs Israel. Long fight - no end in sight. My final word on this: I do not have a problem with ANC policies. It is the inabillity to implement them properly that matters. COPE will probably have more or less the same policies. So eventually they both will be judged on their success or failure to do so. End of story. Time will tell. Give it a rest now please.

ShRoOm 1/9/2009 2:03:53 PM
Am I missing something here? This past week on an almost daily basis we get the same COPE-bashing letter from some doos who is obviously so far up Jacob Zuma's rear we can't see where he ends and the showerhead begins. ANC loyalists often complain about the media but it seems lately they are getting a lot of free advertising on this website. Naturally it is all propaganda and smoke and mirrors - but isn't that what the ANC is all about? They certainly don't care about us ordinary folk.

Wildboy 1/9/2009 2:04:04 PM
Freddy, it's a load of hog wash you are dishing out. No real valid points made, just assumptions and no facts. Please get over yourself and the circus you support.

Phehello 1/9/2009 2:05:19 PM
Freddy, why do you label people elite only after they have left the anc? Are you gonna label Tokyo, Patrice, Matthews, Cyril, etc elites when they decide to leave the anc? Get over yourself and accept that COPE is the best thing to happen to the democracy of this country. Strong competition will ensure that anc or any other party deliveres essential services to the massess. Now leave COPE alone! How long must we tolerate corruption, incompetence by anc officials just because they brought freedom?

Percentage 1/9/2009 2:09:41 PM
Cope is not counter-revolutionary but progressive to the future.

ShRoOm 1/9/2009 2:09:59 PM
"Cope is a moribund organisation without anything to offer except to provoked the masses of our people by calling for the scrapping of affirmative action." What? Woohoo! Where do I sign up?

Get Real 1/9/2009 2:10:36 PM
A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turnaround") is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. Aristotle described two types of political revolution: Complete change from one constitution to another; Modification of an existing constitution. What revolution are you still fighting when you have already won, the ZUMA revolution- Change to communist and socialist. Please wake up! Yes COPE is your counter Revolution!

jas 1/9/2009 2:12:05 PM
Cope is a counter-revolutionary, idealistic, colonial oppressor of ex-comrades, whose ideological structres of apartheid sentiment and neo-colonial suppression of freedom of speech by conspirators on ecomomic empowerment of the masses etc etc The above makes no sense, but it mus look familiar to your? All the ANC's supporters ever do is throw their little marxist theories at us with lots of big words and little to no meaning.

Martin 1/9/2009 2:13:41 PM
Your an Idiot.

Fed up 1/9/2009 2:13:49 PM
I'm so tired of all the bitter ANC members trying to undermine COPE. If the ANC had done their jobs and not let the country down, they wouldn't have to defend themselves now. Thanks ANC for the crime, bad education system, power crisis, water crisis, corruption, poor service delivery... etc... etc

Gary 1/9/2009 2:13:53 PM
All you people commenting - face it - there is some truth to the article. To say the ANC has failed is such rubbish as some readers have said! SA is one of the strongest emerging economies in the world. There are problems, but the ANC has done well nevertheless. The Boesak case is indeed a negative blot on Cope.

Tabita 1/9/2009 2:14:11 PM
Gosh! I have never read such nonsense in my life. This is the same crap we have been hearing ever since Terror served the "divorce papers". You could have tried to come up with your own insight and not this nonsense we have been hearing from the ANC leaders again and again. ANC members observing discipline? Where were you in Polokwane? Where were you during the ANCYL "bum" congress? Where were you when COPE meetings were disrupted? Open your eyes and dont follow blindly.

Voter 1/9/2009 2:14:33 PM
My opinion, COPE is just a recipe for disaster. I am praying that they last until the elections. These guys are not real at all. Imagine Lekota as President of anything mara; honestly he has been in Government since 94 and what has he achieved/done i.e. recalled in FS, insulting people in Khutsong. Who is Mluleki George by the way. At Sam Shilowa is capable of something, but not to lead the country. We deserve better in SA, and for now ANC is the better option

Filemon 1/9/2009 2:14:42 PM
You put me to sleep with your typical ANCircus propaganda. Jessie Duarte is the biggest lying spin doctor the Circus could find. Your unsubstantiated claptrap about Mbeki being Cope's political advisor is proof how desperate and scared the Circus have become.

Xolani a peaceful 1/9/2009 2:14:53 PM
Think you got it wrong here Freddy. Angry are the people who call others names, trample democracy with feet and fists, disrupting almost every meeting/gathering of COPE violently. COPE = HOPE

AvgJoe 1/9/2009 2:15:26 PM
Can someone tally the number of convictions among the ANC MP's? Just remember to use a calculator that can handle big numbers. Nuff said.

Just Me 1/9/2009 2:15:59 PM
........ your article is senseless.... i dont understand a thing you said!!!

Jazzman 1/9/2009 2:16:41 PM
It is not surprising that the editor has align himself with the elite, the arrogants and the indominion of Mzanzi. He is scared that if he writes the opposite his job will be on line. Your comments and conclusion are without base.

Angus 1/9/2009 2:16:51 PM
At last we agree on something. But Freddie forget that Allan Boesak went to jail for paying ANC officials money from overseas donors. This will soon be revealed when his book is released. So its OK if half the NEC has their hands in government coffers, including the Deputy President, not forgetting she was implpicated in the travel gate scheme and bought her drivers, or is that the message we want to send to our youth, if you fail just bribe away.

Just Me 1/9/2009 2:17:45 PM
I would like to read something of them for a change.... enough of this ANC FREE ADVERTISING!!

Staggman 1/9/2009 2:21:30 PM
I'm starting to think the anc has become counter revelutionary. They have not delivered to their own people on promises made over 14 years ago "a better life for all". Certain members have also forgotton about the freedom charter by only looking after the interest's of a small elite.What about the ANCYL? Julius is the worst example to our youth - I say no more.

Historyman 1/9/2009 2:22:42 PM
You're not the only one criticising Cope it's old news. Please tell us about the new things the anc is promising urrrr,,, more corruption?,More crime? or showers to prevent Hiv/Aids?, you choose for us.As far as I know Cope don't have any policies yet & I am just reminding you incase you don't know. Shall we go on & on & on about this Ag man grow up!.....

Ajay 1/9/2009 2:23:20 PM
The definition of revolution is "A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time." therefore a counter revolutionary wants the existing structure as it is , will you wanna be politicians stop saying things you don't understand all you are doing is repeating what you think some clever individual has said

Bronwyn 1/9/2009 2:24:07 PM
"Observing discipline within its structures" - Freddy you got to be kidding, the ANC has shown nothing but ill-dicipline. The DA are the only party with a track-record of corruption free, good governance. And the party itself doesn't act like morons. Oh, and when morkel didnt get cape town mayorship over helen he left the party- just like Boesak, and who did he go to? Yes, the ANC were glad to have him! Same thing don't you think?

ace 1/9/2009 2:26:05 PM
Freddy, I think next week you will be accusing President Montlanthe for being another "Politically Advisor" of a COPE. Don't you think it's enough now. Aren't you people getting enough of the man.You have been humilated him in Polokwane, recalling him as a State President and your innocent JZ made a statement that Mbeki would be convassing for the anc without informing him.Please Stop now. let the man relax. We will meet in Polls. here comes the time damm!!! I can't wait to Vote for COPE !!!

Jabu Pule 1/9/2009 2:26:19 PM
Good article Mr Molotsi....... DA lost members and supporters because of these counter revolutionaries.... ANC is unshaken, I want to remind people to watch the massive crowd in Eastern Cape coming to the ANC Rally. Viva ANC.

Ant 1/9/2009 2:29:14 PM
Which revolutionary textbook did you copy all those "big" words out of, hmm? I found particularly endearing your reference to the "disciplined" nature of the ANC membership. Invevitably it made me reflect on icons of iron discipline such as Fikile Mbalula, Julius Post-Matric-Malema and his bunch of Youth League hooligans. Give it a rest, Freddy. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Mike 1/9/2009 2:29:56 PM
Seems there is a new ANC story putting down Cope posted on here everyday. Might this be the ANC propaganda machine using this as a way of promoting itself and putting down Cope. Same lame stuff over and over.

Mark V 1/9/2009 2:30:06 PM
Yawn. Can News24 please limit this propaganda type articles to one per party per week at most. Less is even better. What a waste of a Friday afternoon!

Silver Surfer 1/9/2009 2:30:37 PM
Hey Dude, you vote for who you want to and I will vote for who I want to. You're not fooling me, lots of words that mean nothing really.

Magapane 1/9/2009 2:31:23 PM
ShRoOm!!!! You always miss the point, If you can't write anything of value adding just safe your energy please!!! You make me sick. You full of hate!!! Stop your mourning and accept reality that ANC is here to stay. You will be ruled and governed by the ANC as long as you live here in SA for some years to come.

Zolilel 1/9/2009 2:32:54 PM
If you think COPE are people after money, you are way too late. Cyril is said to have asked what was in store for him, what positions would he get when asked by Mandela to join the ANC in 1990 (he was a NUM back then and not necessarily ANC). So for Boesak to ask was not out of sorts. Phosa, Maharaj, and others started bashing Mbeki after they lost their positions. What do you say of them? Remember when Mbeki complained others join ANC to advance their careers? To whom was he referring?

Simon 1/9/2009 2:35:34 PM
Surely the ANC can afford to employ a better writer. Or maybe they just couldn't find anyone with half a conscience to preach the absolute poo that spews forth from your article. You sir, are the counter revolutionary!

Sonny 1/9/2009 2:36:05 PM
Yes Jabu, busloading them there from far and wide. Wondering with whose money. Somewhere along the line it's coming from our pockets.

Smanga Zulu 1/9/2009 2:36:37 PM
My thoughts exactly Freddy Molotsi. South Africans who suddenly see Cope as "The Saviour" suffer from selective amnesia. Not so long ago, the Cope leadership was singing ANC's praises when one of their own was in command, after they were battered in Polokwane, they started this nonsensical counter-revolutionary party to address their self-serving agendas... If I was not voting for the ANC, I'd vote for the DA instead of these clowns... The ANC will win... hands down, like it OR not...

Richard Hipkin 1/9/2009 2:37:58 PM
How many more must we be subjected to News24? Surely there must be other articles of another nature that we can all debate on?

Hlabangwane wa Hlabangwane 1/9/2009 2:38:03 PM
The ANC has always played itself as a party of extreme organisationa discipline,which was able to get the best of ideas from all sectors-be it business,working class, race, religion and creed. But the ANC of JZ has succumbed to the triumphalism mentality where they are eroding the pillars that held the organisation before. factionalism,selective morality and the protection of way ward leaders like Malema and others. Do u think OR would b happy to see the decay of once this vanguard party?

Doorboot 1/9/2009 2:43:35 PM
The ANC does "rule" you are so right with that statement. Where does that leave us when democracy require being goverened not ruled. Ruling is by decree, governing is by laws as per the constitution. You have in your ignorance made a synopsis of everything that is wrong in this country. Pitty South Africa because people like you "rule" us.

Meshack 1/9/2009 2:45:19 PM
The people shall govern and ANC will govern this country for many centuries to come.Cope is lead by many opportunists who arevery worried about filling their pockets with millions of rands and ditch the poor.ANC emancipated millions of people in this country and will continue to striving to the betterment of the lives of all.

TT 1/9/2009 2:46:08 PM
Can somebody write something about the DA. Last I checked they were the official opposition. Seeing that majority of people in this blog are ANTI-ANC, surely you should use this platform for free advertisement. OOH! I forgot just like in Parliament the DA's main reason for existence is to criticise the ANC without suggesting solutions. Typical of people in this blog, loudmouths, mourners and groners without any solutions.

Isaiah 1/9/2009 2:49:37 PM
The article is written in a dogmatic way that it hardly offers anything defensible, sensible that one can engage with in factual terms except probably at a psychiatric ward with Julius Malema as the Doctor.As the people we will decide what's best not what COPE or ANC tells us.So spare us the recycled mumbo-jumbo and come with something factual and sensible old comrade!

Bemused 1/9/2009 2:55:26 PM
Damn, all this revulionary and anti-revolutionary and comrade......... It sounds like an old, very old communist propaganda speak that died with the death of old Russian communism. Come on, it's time you moved into the 20th century and worry about who may be best to do the job. Be that the ANC, DA, COPE or whoever. And you don't have to slag off or insult anyone when you want to make a point. Just say what you have to say and let everyone else decide whether they want to agree or disagree.

Mtwetwe 1/9/2009 2:57:54 PM
Actually Freddy, your premise is critically flawed in my opinion. I prefer the premise of what are the ANC offering, and even before looking at the state of the pillaged funds everywhere, I am looking at the calls to and threats of violence and murder by Ancyl where the future ANC leaders reside and I am thinking, Congo and Zimbabwe.

GailC 1/9/2009 3:03:22 PM
At least the person whpo complained that only the declaimers against ANC are published by News24 can see that a well written letter in FAVOUR of the ANC can also be posted. Please note: WELL WRITTEN. For that you need to be educated and the ANC are throwing out the good and bad educationalists in favour of the socialist manifesto on education. Matric results speak for themselves.

Pal 1/9/2009 3:03:36 PM
Yes Cope is counter revolutionary and yes the ANC is better....it's a matter of opinion of course. Just let Cope be and show us you're better instead of going on about dissidents, snakes, mourners and angry defectors exercising their constitutional rights to create an identity for themselves. Your whining about what Cope is not really helping...

TheVoice 1/9/2009 3:06:43 PM
Freddy well it seems like you swallowed the ANC Propaganda pill go proper... Do you have any original thoughts on the topic? Cope emergence strenghtens our democracy and this should be celebrate. How African to squabble over trival rhethoric when there is so many pressing issues to resolve...

JC 1/9/2009 3:06:53 PM
Have a good weekend everyone!

MJ 1/9/2009 3:07:55 PM
What writing: "The ANC is commended by its revolutionary front-troopers for observing discipline within its structures by refusing to allow anarcho-syndicalism to play itself within the movement. "

Kevin 1/9/2009 3:09:36 PM
The word "counter-revolutionary" is superfluous in a democracy and multi-party state. I only has relevance in one party dictatorships such as Cuba, Bob's Zim and the former USSR. Unless of course the plonker who wrote this believes that SA should become undemocratic? Freddy, you are anti-democracy. Please get a BEE deal, make some money and leave SA.

mlungisi 1/9/2009 3:11:04 PM
Now it's not freedom of speech. I mean real, what is wrong if ANC people speak out?

Duzi 1/9/2009 3:11:42 PM
Another article based purely on assumptions and personal opinions. Agreed that Boesak doesn't do COPE's reputation much good, but then neither does an adulterous leader like Zuma. All this does is prove that Freddy, Jabu and cronies are nothing more than a bunch of brainwashed hypocrites... or am I wrong?

Eye of the beholder 1/9/2009 3:12:07 PM
...that's all it is. But not even good enough to manipulate(which I thought was the main objective of any propaganda campaign). If the ANC can't even see they need to change their propaganda-strategies(manipulation methods), then they really do deserve the harsh wake-up call I HOPE they get. We need to challenge each other for greater freedom. Not challenge each other for greater respect. Pride is killing our nation.

Mundane 1/9/2009 3:12:52 PM
"The ANC, unlike Cope and other opposition parties, is not faced with a challenge of ideological bankruptcy." That is the funniest thing I've heard all year.

Mosotho 1/9/2009 3:17:56 PM
The ANC on Friday lost its first member of the Western Cape provincial parliament to the fledgling Congress of the People (COPE). Ntombomzi Macingwane resigned from the ANC and also as a member of the provincial parliament. Macingwane confirmed to the Cape Argus on Friday morning that she handed her resignation to Speaker of the Legislature Shaun Byneveldt and the ANC on Thursday. Macingwane, who has been an ANC member for "almost 20 years", was due to announce her move at a press confe

Cape Town Kid 1/9/2009 3:18:02 PM
It is as Frantz Fanon writes in The Wretched of the Earth,the pretender who wants an easy upward mobility into the ranks of the economic elite sacrificing their mothers and their brothers to mimic the elite.Cde we know these people,we smell them,they are still amongst us but they will eventually betray themselves.What goes around,comes around! Yes these dogs must leave us in peace.The NDR requires true cadres,who knows sacrifice and who will deliver on the promise of a better life for all.

Mlu 1/9/2009 3:20:59 PM
COPE is a new organisation which is evolving but I'm sure you can already see it's character that is why you are sooooo angry. I think the Alliance will do good by lecturing you guys that SA belongs to all those who leave in it AND my dear brother they have choices. The way you talk actually makes me more scared of you than COPE, put bluntly, if you represent ANC views we are doooomed.

Thabo X 1/9/2009 3:22:07 PM
Freddy, when you punt your party like it is a religion instead of a party supposedly "running" the country, I get very worried. Is this really how the voter out there thinks? That supporting a party is a belief rather than an act of wanting the most capable group of people to run the country? I know these regular and short English words that I right is propably below you, but once it sinks in, I hope that you realize you have a number of serious problems bra.

JT 1/9/2009 3:27:27 PM
Dude. You use words you dont understand. The revolution is against the etablishment. The establishment are fat cats in government... THE ANC. Anybody AGAINST the ANC are REVOLUTIONARIES. The ANC stopped being a revolutionary organisation the day they became government.

G-man 1/9/2009 3:28:52 PM
I am really struggling to understand the context of the word "counter revolutionary". When will the ANC and its die hard supporters start living in the present? Wake up!!! The revolution is over!!! And it has been for 14 years now!! Start producing results please!!

Sibusiso 1/9/2009 3:30:17 PM
I do not have a problem with COPE as a party, what is really confusing is how people have forgotten that COPE leaders advocated for the education, health sector and AIDS policies,not the current ANC leadership, at least not the majority of them, Lekota`s department was the worst perfomer every year,now you tell me how are these guys going to bring about change now? The ANC is messed up no doubt about that but at least they have solid policies...and to COPE leaders we need affirmative action

bbvb 1/9/2009 3:32:17 PM
Luckily the youth of our country (under 25yrs old) will soon be the majority and wont buy this "revolution" bulls#hit. The ANC is worried. The primary role of any govermnet is to keep it's people safe. We are living in a warzone. THE ANC HAS FAILED ALL OF US!!! Do you remember what it was like to run around without high fences and barbed wire? Didn't think so!!!! VIVA COPE VIVA!!!!!!

Deon 1/9/2009 3:32:33 PM
Freddy, Ajay is right - please get over your communist propaganda speak. Revolutionaries oppose incumbent governments, who the use counter-revolutionary forces against the revolutionaries. Readers, also remember that when commies talk about 'the people', they mean only members of their party - the rest of us are 'the masses. Just like 'democracy' for them means ruling for ever and suppressing - often forcefully - any opposition.

JB 1/9/2009 3:33:08 PM
Counter revolutions; gangs of eight; anarcho-syndicalism.... goodness, are you high. Forget 'smacks of hypocrosy'... the only smack I see is the one you injected, althernatively the one you need for the appalling attempt at writing.

morne 1/9/2009 3:33:45 PM
The DA is the only party not acting like morons. The only party with exceptional leaders and workable ideologies.

Alan 1/9/2009 3:36:15 PM
Why is it that whenever ANC members leave the ANC they are traitors and spies. Can people not have there own ideas. In fact Freddy if you have had more than 1 job in your life you also qualify as a traitor. Why, you say? Well because you have left one employ to go to another thereby alienating your employer. Think hard before you want to become a journalist because you are quite clueless.

CTheB 1/9/2009 3:36:22 PM
Ummm, I don't think you know what that term means given that it's certainly the ANC that is doing the syndicalism part, or allowing it's partners to do so. I must admit I didn't realise that Alan Boesak was the only person in COPE, I thought there were quite a few. He must be the only person, though, since his actions are evidently the be-all and end-all of COPE. You did get one thing right - the ANC sees its responsibility as galvanising support so it wins the election. Unfortunately it's actual responsibility is to govern the country for the people. The fact that it does not see that as its responsibility, but rather as secondary to staying in power is a big part of the problem. The fact that they believe it is their divine right to stay in power until the second coming only makes that worse. You have proved one thing, that you have learnt how to spout a lot of big words without actually saying anything meaningful, certainly a skill that those in the SACP rate very highly. @mlungisi - yes, this is freedom of speech and he's allowed to make the statements he's made. Just remember that that doesn't make them true, nor does it mean that he cannot be criticised or that criticisms levelled are automatically false just because he's an ANC supporter and/or black. Shroom is out of line with his/her comment, since there has been no evident bias in the coverage of views for or against COPE or the ANC on News24 that I've seen, there have been letters and comments both for and against published, so no one has any reason to complain on those grounds.

CS 1/9/2009 3:39:32 PM
Some big words you use here Freddy. I wonder if you actually grasp what some of them mean? This way of writing in a attempt to get soem sort of message across is straight out of a 50/60's communist manual. Freddy this is absolute drivel and hey maybe not entirely your own fault but rather the "political teachers" you had in some underground political indoctrination school. East Germany maybe!

Papan 1/9/2009 3:40:21 PM
Freddy, your use of words is interesting, there are many hypocritical statements, but I would like to draw attention to 2 points you made. "The ANC,....is not faced with a challenge of ideological bankruptcy" Actually that is exactly what the ANC is currently suffering from, and "The ANC.....discipline within its structures by refusing to allow anarcho-syndicalism to play itself within the movement" Sound like its from a textbook, but that is exactly what has been happening in the ANC-Result Cope

Skywalker 1/9/2009 3:42:04 PM
What, is this ANC Propoganda week or what?! Did all Pro-ANC wanna be journalists decide that they have to smash Cope this week as part of their media campaign? drivel drivel, thats all this is..get back to work Freddy, stop wasting your employers money!

malcolmx 1/9/2009 3:58:29 PM
You Moron. Thanks for telling us that this past week is recent. None of us knew that dork. Please note, it is not the ANC's job to galvanise support for 2009 victory. Its their job to run this country properly today. All they've ever done is make promises to the people who they keep gathering like flocks of sheep for the elective slaughter. The sheep need a warm pen & hay. They're starting to realise it & the ANC don't give it.

Papan 1/9/2009 4:01:19 PM
In reality, between the two the ANC is better equipped to run government, however Cope is extremely necessary to to ensure that a balance of power is maintained, that is one of the cornerstones of a successful democracy. The track record globally shows that when one party has an unbalanced level of power, the country ultimately declines into a dictatorship. Zimbabwe, China, Iran to name a few.

Poo-Bear 1/9/2009 4:22:05 PM
Why...Oh why must we innocents be subjected to this clap-trap?? The revelution is over (thus no counter-revolutionaries), ANC needs to move on and stop making such fools of themselves, soon like Mugabe, they will blame all the SA ills on someone, like the Afrikaaners, the DA, COPE...Please bathong, grow up and move on!! What a lousy end to a week!!!

Malombo 1/9/2009 4:23:34 PM
Funny to see how the ANC are offering the top leaders of the DA diplomatic posts around the world just as an election is due. How come they don't send their own troops??? Me thinks that they have realised that they are useless and that they need honest people from the opposition to try and clean up theie tarnist image abroad. Maby COPE/DA won't win the next election due to the un informed. But wait there is a new dawn on the horizen!!! Malombo

psycobabble 1/9/2009 4:29:12 PM
The anc is counter-revolutionary and cope is revolutinary.Get with the programme buddy.

Ginger 1/9/2009 4:31:29 PM
not again.

Callie 1/9/2009 4:33:01 PM
Spot on!!! The truth shall set you free!!

psycobabble 1/9/2009 4:36:54 PM
You're fired!Have a great weekend.

Azonic 1/9/2009 4:38:11 PM
"betterment of the lives of all". Are you insane, or just stupid? How long is needed for the "betterment" to start? From what I've seen in the last 15 years, the black townships are just getting bigger, the poor, poorer, and the ANC top dogs, a helluva lot richer. Jeez you people are so blind to the obvious.

Puhleez 1/9/2009 4:44:03 PM
Why is that, whenever I ask the question of how relevant tribal division is in the ANC vs Cope debate, my comment is never published? Could it be that my point is so valid that it may upset a few too many people? We discuss black vs white, English vs Afrikaans, Israeli vs Arab etc on news24 - why aren't we permitted to discuss Zulu vs Xhosa?

Frank II 1/9/2009 4:47:54 PM
HA! HA! HA! Each rational person in this country has realized by now that the ANC is taking us down a road to nowhere. Their communist cronies can offer us nothing but collapse, disease, crime and violence. You and your likes will not be missed. The people will make their voices heard at the polls. VIVA DEMOCRACY!

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