EVERYONE can clearly see that the Congress of the People, which started off with so much promise in the wake of Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's arrogance and intransigence, is on a free-fall to hell.
The infighting for leadership positions, power and resources has grotesquely reduced it to such a shell that it would absolutely be a miracle if it could ever reclaim its space on the South African political landscape.
Its branches are moribund and its administration in tatters. Good people have left in droves to join or rejoin the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. Its spin doctors, who did an excellent job to model it as a viable alternative to Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, have also deserted it.
Realistically speaking, the only thing that can bring Cope back to life is divine intervention.
That's perhaps why the party's choice of venue for its coming three-day elective conference in the Free State next month is so interesting.
The Thaba Nchu's Assemblies of God Church is probably an appropriate venue for a conference of a party in trouble.
The venue is a far cry from the plush George's Hotel in Pretoria - where the party tried to hold its elective conference earlier this year but was stopped dead in its tracks by the courts - but it will at least enable the party's leadership to connect with God and seek His divine intervention.
A Long Life for All
Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's top dogs and apparatchiks do not like the sound of the party's political mantra, "A Better Life for All", anymore.
The catchphrase, which has helped the party win election after election since 1994, has become a source of severe discomfort and embarrassment since only a few politically connected individuals have experienced the promised better life. The rest continue to suffer.
The slogan has increasingly become an albatross around the party's neck as the Woodwork Boy and the Machine Gun Man's family members and a few of their politically connected buddies flaunt their questionably acquired wealth in public.
What does the party do? It hatches a plan to gradually - and silently - phase out "A Better Life for All" as its mantra and replace it with a new one.
This plan began to take shape when four cabinet ministers - Aaron Motsoaledi (health), Edna Molewa (social development), Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula (correctional services) and Gugile Nkwinti (rural development and land reform) - met in Pretoria last week.
At the meeting the four ministers promised to deliver to us mere mortals something we all long for: a long - and healthy - life.
But Guluva had all along thought lengthening or shortening people's lives was the sole preserve and prerogative of our Lord the Almighty.
What is the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet going to promise us next? Heaven on Earth? Long live, our political leaders, long live!
ONSIDE: Blade Nzimande, our razor-sharp minister of higher education, on Friday led by example when he made a case for the promotion of African languages in South Africa's education system.
Though his speech was mainly in English, he made the effort to also address the audience in some of the country's indigenous languages. Good show.
OFFSIDE: Shame on all the women who allowed themselves to be used as sex objects at the R700000 40th birthday bash of one Kenny Kunene in Sandton last week. Your disgusting behaviour took women's struggle back to the pre-1956 era.
- E-mail Guluva on: thatha.guluva@gmail.com
Cope in dire need of divine intervention
EVERYONE can clearly see that the Congress of the People, which started off with so much promise in the wake of Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's arrogance and intransigence, is on a free-fall to hell.
The infighting for leadership positions, power and resources has grotesquely reduced it to such a shell that it would absolutely be a miracle if it could ever reclaim its space on the South African political landscape.
Its branches are moribund and its administration in tatters. Good people have left in droves to join or rejoin the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. Its spin doctors, who did an excellent job to model it as a viable alternative to Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, have also deserted it.
Realistically speaking, the only thing that can bring Cope back to life is divine intervention.
That's perhaps why the party's choice of venue for its coming three-day elective conference in the Free State next month is so interesting.
The Thaba Nchu's Assemblies of God Church is probably an appropriate venue for a conference of a party in trouble.
The venue is a far cry from the plush George's Hotel in Pretoria - where the party tried to hold its elective conference earlier this year but was stopped dead in its tracks by the courts - but it will at least enable the party's leadership to connect with God and seek His divine intervention.
A Long Life for All
Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's top dogs and apparatchiks do not like the sound of the party's political mantra, "A Better Life for All", anymore.
The catchphrase, which has helped the party win election after election since 1994, has become a source of severe discomfort and embarrassment since only a few politically connected individuals have experienced the promised better life. The rest continue to suffer.
The slogan has increasingly become an albatross around the party's neck as the Woodwork Boy and the Machine Gun Man's family members and a few of their politically connected buddies flaunt their questionably acquired wealth in public.
What does the party do? It hatches a plan to gradually - and silently - phase out "A Better Life for All" as its mantra and replace it with a new one.
This plan began to take shape when four cabinet ministers - Aaron Motsoaledi (health), Edna Molewa (social development), Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula (correctional services) and Gugile Nkwinti (rural development and land reform) - met in Pretoria last week.
At the meeting the four ministers promised to deliver to us mere mortals something we all long for: a long - and healthy - life.
But Guluva had all along thought lengthening or shortening people's lives was the sole preserve and prerogative of our Lord the Almighty.
What is the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet going to promise us next? Heaven on Earth? Long live, our political leaders, long live!
ONSIDE: Blade Nzimande, our razor-sharp minister of higher education, on Friday led by example when he made a case for the promotion of African languages in South Africa's education system.
Though his speech was mainly in English, he made the effort to also address the audience in some of the country's indigenous languages. Good show.
OFFSIDE: Shame on all the women who allowed themselves to be used as sex objects at the R700000 40th birthday bash of one Kenny Kunene in Sandton last week. Your disgusting behaviour took women's struggle back to the pre-1956 era.
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