Hon Deputy Chairperson, I hereby give notice that, at the next sitting of the Council, I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that in a dramatic twist, the flagging Congress of the People, Cope, served Parliament with an interim interdict minutes before the National Assembly Speaker, hon Mr Max Sisulu, was scheduled to swear in new Congress of the People, Cope, Member of Parliament Mr Graham McIntosh;
2) further notes that the interdict restrains the National Assembly Speaker from swearing in any person nominated to fill the vacancy left by Mr Sam Shilowa's dramatic expulsion by the faction linked to the self-proclaimed President of Cope who was elected under a tree in the party's failed elective conference;
3) further notes that the dramatic court action and interdicts between the two factions of Cope have left it with two lists for the upcoming local government elections and led to hundreds of the party's members joining the ANC across South Africa; and 4) takes this opportunity to call on all Cope members to rejoin the ANC to continue the fight for a better life for their communities.