The organisation is naming itself the Congress of the People, after the gathering in Kliptown in Soweto in 1955 that drew up the Freedom Charter, a text which became a theme of the fight against discrimination.
Cope, the acronym that the party has chosen, argues that the ANC has abandoned the values of the Freedom Charter.
Breakaway South African announces name
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