Can Mbhazima Shilowa and Mosiuoa Lekota's breakaway party succeed? There are good reasons to be sceptical. Two months ago, few observers would have contended that South Africa was suffering from a ...

Johannesburg — THE new party led by Mbhazima Shilowa and Mosiuoa Lekota might have to settle for its popular nickname -- Shikota party -- after it was found that the preferred name was already taken.

The Shikota movement on Saturday declared its intention to launch a new political party that will rival the African National Congress at the polls during the 2009 elections. The movement decided this ...

Everybody knows about Mosiuoa Lekota, Mbhazima Shilowa and Mluleki George. But who are the other leading lights in the Shikota movement? When communications director general Lyndall Shope resigned ...

The stage has been set for what other analysts and the mainstream media term as the major development on our political landscape. However, little has been said about the hypocrisy underlying the ...

The Congress of the People (Cope) will be registered as the official name for the Shikota breakaway party by the end of the week. The steering committee of the new party - to be launched on December ...

NEWSWATCH: The SABC has been accused of ignoring the ANC gatherings in favour of Shikota, a new splinter group recently established by the ruling party's dissidents, according to yesterday's (Sunday, ...

Congress of the People (Cope) co-founders Mbhazima Shilowa and Mosiuoa Lekota is continuing their dispute over who is the party’s leaders in an application in the Johannesburg High Court today. In ...

The SABC has been accused of ignoring the ANC gatherings in favour of Shikota, a new splinter group recently established by the ruling party's dissidents, according to yesterday's (Sunday, 2 November ...