Chris Van Gass
1 December 2008
Cape Town — JJ Tabane has been appointed spokesman for the Congress of the People (COPE), the party said yesterday.
Tabane, corporate aff-airs executive at Altron and former South African Airways spokesman, would join COPE today, the party which recently broke away from the African National Congress (ANC) said.
Former Scorpions spokesman Sipho Ngwema was also quitting his job to become a COPE spokesman. This follows last week's announcement that former Western Cape premier Peter Marais was also joining COPE.
Marais was one of four new members paraded before the media on Friday. They included Anwar Ismail, a former provincial councillor for the New National Party, Rodney Rhoda, who joined the ANC after leaving the old Labour Party and National Party, and former Labour Party deputy leader Ben Kieser.
Marais said that "after the next election we will not speak of a Western Cape any more, but the Western COPE". He said people had asked him about other parties.
"I say any fighter who's been in the ring for 14 years and has never won a fight should consider whether he should go on or retire. Neither can we continue to put Baby Jake Matlala in the same ring with Mike Tyson. It's an unfair duel," said Marais.
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