City of Johannesburg speaker Colleen Makhubele has become an astute politician over the past few years.
She has stood her ground and she managed to keep and maintain her position at the helm of the party.
Makhubele is eyeing a more senior position which she believes she can be able to maintain.
She would like to become the next president of Cope and she has set her sights on claiming the top seat at the next party congress.
While Cope was yet to finalise dates for its national and provincial congress, Makhubele has signalled her intentions to succeed the party’s president, Mosiuoa Lekota, amid talks of the veteran potentially stepping down.
Lekota has been at the helm of the party since its early days and he is seen as the face of Cope.
If it is true that he is stepping down, then it would automatically mean that a new president is going to be elected.
That is were Makhubele is sensing a strong victory amid all that is happening.
She initially served as a board member of the City of Joburg’s Metropolitan Trading Company and in the chair of chairs position before she was elected as council speaker in September last year.
She recently spoke in an interview with Radio 702 were she weighed in all the possibilities.
“But I have ambitions too at the right time: if it is not this upcoming elective congress, then at the next one. It will happen,” she told the publication.
She definitely believes that she can take charge at the party. Dates for the elective conference are yet to be published.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/politics/joburg-speaker-colleen-makhubele-eyeing-cope-top-position/
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