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 leadership change and Mbeki’s recall. COPE invoked the name of the 1955 Congress of the People, which had adopted the Freedom Charter, while positioning itself as an electoral alternative to the ANC.
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COPE emerged from the 2008 internal conflict as a separate political party.