Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane’s state of the province address drew sharp criticism from the opposition parties, with the DA pointing out that he had failed to announce “game changers”.Mabuyane delivered his Sopa at the Abbotsford Christian Centre in East London on Thursday.
On 27 September 1997, like-minded South Africans came together at what was then known as the World Trade Centre, in Kempton Park, to form the United Democratic Movement (UDM) after months of consultation between the erstwhile National Consultative Forum and the New Movement Process.