Misadventures of a Cope Volunteer: My Crash Course in Politics

By (author): Michiel le Roux. A humorous memoir by Michiel le Roux, who at 26 left a banking career to volunteer for South Africa's newly formed Congress of the People (Cope) during its chaotic 2009 election campaign. He recounts everything from delivering candidate lists to chauffeuring party leader Mosiuoa Lekota, exposing the party's power struggles, funding shortfalls and administrative disarray, all wrapped in what reviewers call "caustic comment on the state of politics in South Africa."