COPE has fired its Joburg council speaker, Colleen Makhubele.
During a media briefing in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, on Monday, 13 November, Cope's general-secretary, Eric Mohlapamaswi, said that Makhubele joined the South African Rainbow Alliance (Sara) without its permission.
Sara is a coalition comprising of small parties including the NFP, AARM, ICM and churches.
“That being the case, a councillor in the Joburg municipality has her name on posters and on the poles and in media circulation as member of Sara, as such she has terminated her own membership of congress,” said Mohlapamaswi.
He said another councillor in Tshwane has also been axed for calling himself chairman of Sara.
“Correspondences are on their way to the former comrades because they have terminated their membership ever since they joined Sara,” he said.
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A few months ago, the struggling party fired its former deputy president and MP, Willie Madisha.
One of the members of Sara, Bishop Marothi J Mashashane, tweeted a picture of Makhubele with the Sara poster and captioned it: "Small parties have amalgamated to campaign under one name, Sara, and have chosen the speaker of Joburg, Colleen Makhubele, as the candidate president of the super pact. This arrangement is founded by AARM, ICM, Cope, NFP and churches.”
Makhubele replied: “A birth of a new nation indeed, Leadership!”
Mashashane posted another tweet and said: "Sara is the amalgamated vehicle that majority parties are to jointly campaign and have their supporters vote for. Colleen Makhubele is appointed the campaign face of the alliance."
Makhubele has not been reached for comment on this matter.
