Cope defector returns to the ANC

A FORMER Cope leader has made a return to the ANC.

Casca Mokitlane, a former Cope member of parliament in the Free State legislature was welcomed back into the ANC.

“I am happy to be back at this party. Comrades were telling me that they wanted me back. It is an opportune time to come back,” he said.

Mokitlane denied ever labelling Free State Premier Ace Magashule as “power hungry.”

This, despite an article in a local newspaper in February, where Mokitlane was quoted saying, under Magashule, the province “lacked leadership.”

Mokitlane denied ever making such statement and instead heaped praise on Magashule.

“I never said that. In fact it was a Cope member who said it. Magashule was at the forefront of bringing me back to the ANC,” Mokitlane said.

He then went on to launch a stinging attack on Cope, a party he served for five years, referring to it as “that thing” whose leader Mosiuoa Lekota was obsessed with power.

“That project (Cope) has failed. It has reached a cul de sac. I no longer want to be associated with a dying organisation. Cope under Lekota is history,” he said.