Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that the Congress of the People faction led by one of its presidents, Mbhazima Shilowa, launched its own local government manifesto in a gloomy and sombre moment indicative of the fast death of the embattled party, attended by a handful of people who mistook it for a funeral;
2) further notes that the faction leader Mbhazima Shilowa could not take part in the activities of his faction or address it because of a ban obtained by Mosiuoa Lekota preventing him from operating the embattled party's bank accounts, saying he is a Cope president, acting as Cope MP, and blocking the other faction from their headquarters; and
3) takes this opportunity to call on the Cope members who are disillusioned and disheartened by the selfishness of their leaders to come back to the ANC where they belong and join this life-long movement to implement an agenda to be part of a national agenda to build a better South Africa.