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Original Post Date: 2008-12-15 Time: 15:00:09 Posted By: Jan
Bitter rivalry between old comrades intensified when ANC President Jacob Zuma likened COPE leaders to dangerous witches, while the breakaway party interim leader, Mosiuoa Lekota, accused the ruling party of instilling fear in society.
The two leaders were in different cities, but their battle for the hearts of the voters was marked by mud-slinging as they played to the gallery of thousands of their supporters.
Ironically, their rival supporters donned yellow T-shirts and, coincidentally, chanted similar battle songs, but tweaked names to suit their favourite leaders and parties – or their rivals. And both sides claimed allegiance and invoked names of ANC stalwarts.
Zuma invaded the heartland of COPE in Port Elizabeth in the last leg of his four-day campaign trail in the Eastern Cape, while Lekota held his party’s inaugural congress at the birthplace of the ANC, Bloemfontein. The city’s mundane street lampposts were also politicised, brightened up with colourful political posters.
| ‘It is better when you have an enemy that you don’t know’ |
Posters with the smiling face of Zuma were hung at the entrance of the University of Free State, the venue for the Cope congress, while breakaway members claimed their posters were torn down.
On Tuesday, the city of roses – as Bloemfontein is peculiarly known – will become the battle of the congresses as Zuma is meant to address a rally to mark Umkhonto weSizwe’s 47th anniversary metres away from the COPE congress.
Name-calling and finger-pointing matches are expected to intensify as former comrades turn against each other, as they did on Monday.
Previously likened to snakes and called the “donkey of Jerusalem”, the breakaway Congress of the People’s leaders were labelled dangerous “witches” from within the family by Jacob Zuma.
He was addressing a capacity crowd at the Dan Qeqe stadium in Zwide, Port Elizabeth.
He said while the his party was unperturbed by COPE’s existence, the breakaway party could still be a threat to the ANC.
“It is better when you have an enemy that you don’t know. If you know the enemy, then it is more difficult.
“In Zulu we refer to a form of witchcraft called ‘ukuphehla amanzi’ where your enemy would mix dirt from your body in a calabash and stick a spear into the mixture … this would cause you sharp body pains.
“When a witch is a family member, we know that it’s more dangerous than an enemy from outside,” said Zuma, speaking in a mix of Xhosa and Zulu.
Monday’s rally was also the first time Zuma visited the Nelson Mandela region since his election as ANC president in Polokwane.
If the breakaway party had claimed Port Elizabeth was a “no-go area” for the ANC, then Monday’s rally proved otherwise as more than 10 000 supporters and volunteers packed the stadium.
Over the past four days Zuma has courted kings, traditional leaders and church leaders, urging them to back the ruling party in the upcoming elections in the ANC heartland where the party’s dominance is threatened by the emergence of COPE.
In Bloemfontein, Lekota told delegates that the ANC’s response to the formation of COPE had left sections of society paralysed with fear akin to the terror that gripped the nation under apartheid leaders, John Vorster and PW Botha.