Comrades, Please do not laugh at this person or this organisation. we
recall all their statements when they were excited about forming the new
"Tuck Shop" refered to as COPE. It is very sad when the history of
reality
prove to people that there is nothing better than the movement led by
the
ANC. My advice to Allan Boesak is that he must concentrate on the church
building and preaching the word of God and never part
participate directly in politics (it is not his calling neither sports
nor
hobby) The ANC is the only political home for the people of South
Africa.
This afford us more opportunity to build strong ANC in Western Cape.
I have today informed the leadership of Cope that I am ending my
membership of the party and that I have tendered my resignation as a
member of the provincial legislature with immediate effect," Boesak said
in a statement. His letter of resignation was sent to the speaker of the
house today, said Boesak. From the very beginning the party structures,
such as they were, were characterised by faction fighting, strife,
pitched
battles for political supremacy and duplicity...At this point the party
structures continue to be in disarray.Boesak "expressly" said he did not
want a leadership position in Cope when he joined it in December 2008.
"It
was only after the severest pressures that I conceded to assist the
party
in the elections. Deep resentment was caused within the party "by the
irregularities with the list process and the interim leadership
situation
persisted and made normal work almost impossible," said Boesak. This is
an
apparent reference to reports of in-fighting between Mvume Dandala -
elected as Cope's presidential candidate -and party leader Terror
Lekota.
Boesak said many "good, hard workers" in the party had been suspended
because they dared to criticise the leadership. "It seems that the mud
is
rising. I have no desire to subject my family, myself or my calling to
serve our people to these sorts of indignities and destructive
politicking. Cope spokesman Phillip Dexter brushed aside Boesak's
criticism, saying it was never going to be easy to launch a new
political
party. We've received his resignation with regret. He joined the party
when we launched... so obviously people had high hopes for his
involvement. The kind of challenges he pointed out... are ordinary
challenges when you are dealing with a new organisation. We wish him the
best in his future endeavours," Dexter told Boesak's resignation is not
the first to hit the party that saw the light late last year under the
leadership of ex-African National Congress veterans Lekota, Mluleki
George
and Mbhazima Shilowa. The trio were all vocal supporters of ex-president
Thabo Mbeki, who was ousted by the ruling party's national executive
committee. Two senior Cope leaders, Simon Grindrod and Lynda Odendaal,
resigned in recent months,expressing disappointment with the way the
party
was being managed. Cope is the third-biggest party in Parliament and has
been increasingly working together with the official opposition, the
Democratic Alliance. Boesak promised to "continue with my work in the
civil society, in the church and as extraordinary professor at the
Univesirty of Stellenbotch. He said working for the integrity of this
democracy of the people of South Africa is what I have always been
called
to do, adding that he would return to work for the "globalisation
project"
with churches in South Africa and Germany. Here, as before, I can work
with dignity and purpose." In the meantime, he would continue to pray
for
Cope. My prayer is that Cope will find that hope and vision again and so
fulfill the promise it had made to the people of South Africa now almost
one year ago. Boesak, who was convicted of fraud in 1999 but later
pardoned, recently released his autobiography, "Running with Horses:
Reflections of an Accidental Politician", in which he maintains his
innocence in the fraud case.
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