TOM EATON | It’s a marvel how small parties COPE in the maelstrom of SA politics
For just 47,000 votes you too can have two seats in parliament and the extravagant salaries that go with them
12 July 2023 - 22:14
For a few hours on Wednesday morning, as the news temporarily broke that COPE had been deregistered as a political party, its leader, the man who insists he’s the leader, and its 32 members faced the terrible prospect of keeping on doing nothing but no longer being paid to do it...
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