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Definition: African National Congress from Collins English Dictionary

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1 (in South Africa) a political party, founded in 1912 as an African nationalist movement and banned there from 1960 to 1990 because of its active opposition to apartheid: in 1994 won South Africa's first multiracial elections. Abbreviation: ANC

African National Congress

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
South African political party, founded in 1912 as a multiracial nationalist organization with the aim of extending the franchise to the whole population and ending all racial discrimination. It was banned by the government from 1960 to January 1990. It has been South Africa's ruling party from 2004. Its president from 2007 is Jacob Zuma . Talks between the ANC, led by its president, Nelson Mandela , and the South African government began in December 1991 and culminated in the adoption of a non-racial constitution in 1993 and the ANC's agreement to participate in a power-sharing administration, as a prelude to full majority rule. In the country's first universal suffrage elections in April 1994, the ANC won a sweeping victory, capturing 62% of the vote, and Mandela was elected president. The ANC also won a majority in South Africa's first democratic local government elections in November 1995, when it won 66.3% of the vote. Mandela stepped down as ANC president in 1997, being replaced…
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Full text Article African National Congress (ANC)

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
South African political party and black nationalist organization. Founded in 1912 (as the South African Native National Congress), the ANC was long dedicated to the elimination of apartheid . In response to government massacres of demonstrators at Sharpeville (1960) and Soweto (1976), it carried out…
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Full text Article African National Congress

From Encyclopedia of South Africa
In the years following the 1994 democratic transition, the African National Congress (ANC) has dominated South African politics. The legitimacy and popularity of the movement has its more immediate origins in securing black majority rule in 1994, but its deeper genesis lies in the ANC's long history…
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The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was founded in 1944 by Anton Lembede , Ashby Peter Mda, Nelson Mandela , Walter Sisulu , and Oliver Tambo as the youth wing of the African National Congress . It marked the rise of a new generation of leadership of South Africa's African population…
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This 1914 photograph shows members of the South...
Following a decade of political activism for the rights of blacks, Coloureds, and Indians in South Africa, the South African Native National Congress—later renamed the African National Congress (ANC)—was formed on January 8, 1912, in Bloemfontein. It unified the fragmented efforts of various…
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Full text Article ANC (African National Congress)

From Chambers Dictionary of World History
The most important of the South African nationalist organizations opposed to white minority rule. It began in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress and, under the influence of M K Gandhi , organized passive resistance to white power. Led by members of a growing black middle class, it…
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Full text Article AFRICAN National Congress

From The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
The African National Congress (ANC) was created at Bloemfontein, south africa , on January 8, 1912, to defend the rights of the nation's black majority from dominant racist whites. its first campaign was limited to opposing passage of the 1913 Land Act, which barred black Africans from owning land…
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Full text Article African National Congress

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
South African political party, founded in 1912 as a multiracial nationalist organization with the aim of extending the franchise to the whole population and ending all racial discrimination. It was banned by the government from 1960 to January 1990. It has been South Africa's ruling party from 2004. …
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In January 1912, the inaugural conference of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) was convened. Its purpose was to provide a platform for African opinion in South Africa and to create a vehicle through which to oppose discriminatory legislation being passed by the formed union of South…
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Full text Article African National Congress

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(ANC), the oldest black (now multiracial) political organization in South Africa; founded in 1912. Prominent in its opposition to apartheid , the organization began as a nonviolent civil-rights group. In the 1940s and 50s it joined with other groups in promoting strikes and civil disobedience among…
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South African political party. It was formed in 1912 with the aim of securing racial equality and full political rights for non-whites. By the 1950s, the ANC was the main opposition to the apartheid regime. A military wing, Umkhonte We Sizwe ('Spear of the Nation'), was set up in the aftermath of…
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