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| Mandisi Majavu |
Before
the 2009 general elections, political pundits predicted that a shift
of black electoral support from the African National Congress (ANC)
to Congress of the People (COPE) was inevitable. It was further
pointed out that this shift was going to occur along class lines; we
were told that the black middle class perceived COPE as the political
party that could represent its class interest. Although COPE won
about seven percent of the national vote in the 2009 elections, the
internecine feud among its leaders has effectively made the party
politically irrelevant.
