For a party that claims “We are not shaken, we are unbreakable and we are indestructible,” the African National Congress sure is spending a lot of time disavowing being shaken, broken, or destroyed. And it is planning to spend an awful lot of time and resources fighting the right of the breakaway faction of the ANC to call itself the “Congress of the People” (COP).
The COP, meanwhile, is spending its time and resources on the perhaps more prosaic work of actually garnering support, especially in those provinces where it looks to have enough strength to take over political control, whether on its own or in coalitions. The Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape and North West have shown signs that for all of the ANC's bluster, it may not be the only game in town any more.