Want Cheese with that Whine, COPE?
Is the Congress of the People taking over the usual whining role that the Democratic Alliance had exclusive rights to?
I ask because all we’ve been seeing in news reports are complaints from COPE about ANC protesters gathered outside COPE meetings.
If the USA is the shining light of democracy, then ANC supporters are just putting into practice 
their democratic right to protest.
their democratic right to protest.
During US elections it was common place for supporters of the Democratic party to stand outside venues where Republican candidates held rallies with placards and police in tow…and vice versa.
It is the job of the police to see that protesters are a good distance away from the opposition’s gathering.
In South Africa as with everything else, the media blows everything out of proportion, making a mountain out of a mole hill. Maybe the sight of people protesting still brings back memories of the 1970s and 80s?
COPE, the ANC and any other party can have their conventions and rallies, but they must know that everyone else the right to stand outside and protest.
Mothers tell their children all the time, “I cannot hear you when you whine.”
The US elections were not easy walk-in-the park democracy in action. It was tough, robust and often unfair, but no one cried when they were called names. The politicians left it up to the public to believe what they wanted and they voted accordingly.
Let us do the same in South Africa.
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4 Responses to “Want Cheese with that Whine, COPE?”
By Anonymous on Nov 24, 2008 | Reply
The ANC is so politically retarded that it disrupts COPE meetings. Any sensible person would be opposed to that…but apparently not you.
By Eldad Viljoen on Nov 24, 2008 | Reply
I agree with Anonymous.
This is an absurd article. We live in Africa. In the USA one group of supporters wouldn’t attack the other. I say, Let everyone protest, but why do it at the same time and place.
The threat of violence can makes a difference. Just look at the 2nd election in Zimbabwe.
By Glass Pearl on Nov 25, 2008 | Reply
Anonymous,you have a right to protest ANC meetings as well…but of course it’s easy to criticize, name call and do nothing.
By Glass Pearl on Nov 25, 2008 | Reply
Eldad, So African democracy works differently to the Western world’s? You don’t see the double standard and you call my post absurd!