📅 26 June 1955
Delegates gathered at Kliptown on 25 and 26 June in a Congress of the People convened by the Congress Alliance. On 26 June they adopted the Freedom Charter, drafted from public demands gathered across...
📅 12 December 2008
The Pretoria High Court dismissed the ANC’s application to prevent the breakaway movement from using the name Congress of the People. The court considered the ANC’s connection to the 1955 Congress...
📅 16 December 2008
Former ANC leaders and members formally launched the Congress of the People (COPE) at a three-day congress in Bloemfontein. The new organisation emerged from disputes following the Polokwane...
📅 22 April 2009
South Africans voted in national and provincial elections. The ANC received 65.90 percent of valid votes and 264 of 400 National Assembly seats, below the two-thirds threshold and lower than its...
📅 25 April 2009
The Independent Electoral Commission confirmed the ANC’s victory in the 2009 general election. The party won 264 seats and 65.90 percent of the vote, while COPE entered Parliament with 30 seats. The...
📅 6 May 2009
The newly elected National Assembly chose ANC president Jacob Zuma as president of the Republic. Zuma received 277 of 327 votes cast in a secret ballot. This constitutional election converted the...
