Former struggle icon Allan Boesak on Tuesday became the latest high-profile figure to join the newly-formed Congress of the People.
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He announced his decision at the final session of Cope's three-day founding conference in Bloemfontein.
Boesak rose to prominence in the 1980s as a churchman and a leader of the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front.
He served a brief jail sentence in 2000 after being convicted of fraud and theft of over R1.5m of donor funds. He later received a presidential pardon.
A former head of the Geneva-based World Council of Reformed Churches, he has held senior positions in the NG Sendingkerk, and was a driving force behind its adoption of the prophetic Belhar Confesssion.
He resigned all posts in its successor, the Uniting Reformed Church, in October this year claiming dissatisfaction at the way the church was dealing with the issue of homosexuality.
In July this year he accused the African National Congress of entrenching racial hatred instead of preaching tolerance.
In a public address in Cape Town, he said the party had "brought back the hated system of racial categorisation", and said affirmative action had in some cases taken on new forms of racial exclusion, throwing overboard the solidarity forged through years of struggle.
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5 Opinion(s):
"struse" fuck, now there is no more hope for Zimzania. This is just the last straw amongst the trillion "last" straws the white man has to bear. I left 3 years ago; poor white man that stayed behind: your back must be totally fucked by now...How can you handle it????
This is a moove to balance the overwhelming advantage the ANC has in the area of fraud. Every party that fights for the black vote must at least have one heavy weight crook in order to appear representative of the " masses ".
Alan Boesak, convicted thief and fraudster and wannabe ambassador for SA, joining COPE is bad news for the newly formed party. His frantic rhetoric in Bloemfontein is enough to put anyone off from joining the party. With Boesak in it's midst, and that in a position of leadership, there is no HOPE for COPE.
All the poor man asked the ANC for was to be SA's ambassador to the UN, or a cabinet post. Since they gave him neither, it says a lot for the ANC, and proves just what sort of a character they (of all people) judge Boesak to be. Listening to him at Bloemfontein is enough to make one despair of COPE. With Boesak joining COPE, they made sure that hunderds of thousands will NOT join.
Boesak might be a clever troyan horse that the ANC managed to insert into COPE to show the voters that COPE is in no way cleaner than the ANC itself.
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