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Original Post Date: 2009-01-22 Time: 07:00:09 Posted By: Jan
As the Congress of the People (COPE) prepare for its manifesto launch, the stakes have been upped for high-profile ANC members who have been associated with the newly-formed party to make their allegiances clear.
Former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has been mentioned as one of those the ANC suspects of having made contact with COPE.
At the same time COPE’s deputy leader Mbhazima Shilowa hinted in London this week that former ANC NEC member and businessman Saki Macozoma was about to join his party.
The ANC has been frustrated at members whose loyalties they question, especially those associated with former president Thabo Mbeki.
At a Press conference on Wednesday ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said Mlambo-Ngcuka was the only high-profile person they were hearing about as having made connection with COPE.
Independent Newspapers reported a week ago that Mlambo-Ngcuka was close to announcing her defection to COPE and quoted former aides as saying she would only join the new party if the ANC put her through a disciplinary process and fire her.
Mantashe also dismissed the announcement by Shilowa of Macozoma’s possible defection as nothing new.
He accused COPE of stage-managing defections to garner maximum publicity from them.
Macozoma was accused, when COPE was initially formed, of funding the splinter group and there were calls for his expulsion.
Former cabinet ministers, including Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and her husband Jabu Moleketi, Thoko Didiza and Essop Pahad, who were earlier rumoured to be on the brink of joining COPE, have not yet done so.
Mantashe further said the party was also not deeply concerned about Mbeki’s mother, Epainette, publicly aligning herself with COPE.
MaMbeki, as she is affectionately known, has publicly criticised the ruling party and hinted at possibly joining COPE.
She is being lined up to address the launch of the party’s manifesto at the Wolfsen Stadium in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape at the weekend.
Mantashe said MaMbeki was not newsworthy to the party because she had stopped being a member years ago.
He said the media were only fascinated with her because she was the mother of a former president of the country and the movement.
COPE is hoping to attract more than 40 000 to its manifesto launch in a province where it is fighting a bitter battle with the ANC.
COPE has accused Mantashe of pushing Mlambo-Ngcuka out of the party.
The party said ANC leaders were looking for reasons to continue with the purge that they started in Polokwane.
“We will attempt to recruit most of the credible, efficient and hardworking leadership they are rejecting for feeble reasons,” it said.