Dear Editor,
Is Cope a hopeless hope and a change that will never be?
The majority of South Africans are enduring the hardships of poverty and unemployment and as a result are desperate for a meaningful change and hope, and for that reason they remain prey to unscrupulous and deceitful campaigners whom will resort to backstabbing, blaming and also make unpractical promises.
People are enchanted with the change which has just emerged in the form of the recently self-elected Cope leadership. This is in all fairness a change in vain. Reviewing the profile of this leadership you will agree with me that their integrity as leaders is not at all intact, particularly that of the President and his deputy.
Under the leadership of President Thabo Mbeki there are a number of incidents and issues which went wrong and they both remained mum and never uttered a word. The question remains, were they just being blindly loyal to their master or were they just being themselves by being dumb?
The alleged drift away from the Freedom Charter/policies by the ANC as claimed by the new self elected leadership of Cope has yet to be substantiated. There is no record of their engagement with the ANC leadership over their dissatisfaction and yet they run to the media crying fowl.
The Cope leadership gave as one of their reasons for abandoning the ruling party, as the system in which leadership is selected as unreliable and biased, being in the hands of few delegates. Hypocritically surprising, the same system has been applied in their election of leadership.
In few months South Africans will be going to the polls and yet we are still waiting for Cope's policies and election manifesto. The questions are, are they bluffing or are they the change that people are looking for. Is it another ploy to remain a VIP in the South African political arena by both the main defectors and their cronies? Is it a new method of seeking employment by the famous and out of favour?
Most of the Cope leadership were active members of the ruling party election and they shared the table with senior ANC members in times of decision making and for that they should also be held responsible for all the failures and mismanagement occurred since 1994.
Gilbert Magapane Makaba
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