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Original Post Date: 2008-12-16 Time: 07:00:10 Posted By: Jan
By Wendy Jasson da Costa
The founding conference of the Congress of the People, under way in the Free State, has been the scene of infighting over leadership positions in KwaZulu-Natal.
The chairperson of the Chatsworth branch, Raymond Sakloo, threatened on Monday to resign if COPE’s provincial co-ordinator, Nhlanhla Buthelezi, was not replaced, saying the party needed stronger leaders to stand up to ANC heavyweights such as provincial chairman Zweli Mkhize.
Sakloo said he had the biggest branch, with 3 200 members, and questioned why former ANC member Phillip Mhlongo and Buthelezi, who defected from the SACP, had been imposed on COPE members in KwaZulu-Natal.
“The national leadership did not consult us… (and) I joined COPE for change. I want the national leadership to resolve the matter urgently,” he said.
Sakloo was particularly critical of Buthelezi, saying he brought the “whole SACP dogmatic approach” to the party and was not the right person for the job.
He said the Indian vote was important in KwaZulu-Natal and – since he had initially considered reviving the former Natal Indian Congress, before deciding to join COPE – this was just one of the options he was considering should his concerns not be dealt with.
Buthelezi in turn accused Sakloo of forming the Chatsworth branch without any mandate and said he did not want anyone other than himself to work in the Indian communities in Chatsworth, Phoenix and Newlands West.
He said he had asked Sakloo not to interact with the media and not to take a COPE leadership position because he was constantly targeted by the ANC.
Sakloo was previously identified as the person who told the media that COPE leader Mosiuoa Lekota had met KwaZulu-Natal transport MEC Bheki Cele and MPL Omie Singh.
Both of them are from the ANC.
He also admitted that he recently took journalists to the home of struggle veteran Fatima Meer when she met Lekota.
Buthelezi pointed out that there were many people who were covertly supporting COPE and that their identities could not be revealed yet.
“We can’t have those people exposed to the danger of the ANC as it behaves today,” he said.
Sakloo, a former ANC soldier, was previously accused of being an askari (a fighter who had been turned by the security police).