African National Congress(ANC)

The African National Congress (ANC) is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its Tripartite Alliance with -
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and

the South African Communist Party (SACP)

Since the establishment of Non-Racial Democracy in April 1994,ANC has been the ruling party of Post-Apartheid South Africa on the National Level.

Founded on January 08, 1912 in Bloemfontein  as the ''South African Native National Congress'' (SANNC)  to Increase the Rights of the Black South African Population.
John Langalibalele Dube (1871 - 1946), its 1st President, and Poet and Author Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (October 09, 1876 – June 19, 1932) are among its founding members

 

The Organization became the ANC in 1923 and formed a Military Wing, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) in 1961

Feb 02,1990A young man holds a local newspaper announcing that the ANC was no longer banned

Feb 02,1990South African State President F.W. de Klerk, center, announces the unconditional release of jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela, the unbanning of the ANC, PAC and South African Communist party and the lifting of the state of emergency during parliament in Cape Town, South Africa

 Feb 11,1990 Nelson Mandela and then-wife, Winnie Mandela, walk hand-in-hand upon his release from prison after serving imprisonment for  27 years

  April 10,1994 An ANC supporter with an election placard

  
April 27,1994 An aerial photo shows long lines of people outside a polling station in the township of mostly black town of Soweto, in the southwest suburbs of Johannesburg(the first all-race election in South Africa)

April 27,1994 ANC leader Nelson Mandela casts his vote at Ohlange High School hall in Inanda, north of Durban, South Africa. Mandela won the first all-race election to become president of South Africa.

Dec 10,1996 President Nelson Mandela signs into law a new constitution for South Africa as lawyer Cyril Ramaphosa, left, looks on. The ceremony was the culmination of more than five years of talks between Mandela's ANC and the National Party of former president F.W. de Klerk

  
Dec 20,1997 South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, left, holds Nelson Mandela's hand up in the air while holding a walking stick that Mandela presented him with in his other hand during the ANC's general congress, held in Mafeking, South Africa

June 16,1999 President of the Constitutional Court Arthur Chaskalson, left, swears in South Africa's new President Thabo Mbeki during his inauguration ceremony at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa.

South Africa's ANC Party Celebrates 100 Years on Jan 08,2012 - (Jan 08,1912 - Jan 08,2012)

 

From all over the country, tens of thousands had come to the ANC's birthplace, Bloemfontein. They joined foreign heads of state and dignitaries at the Free State Stadium, the party flag and logo, with the legends "Unity in diversity" and "100 years of selfless struggle", were painted on the pitch. Either side of a central stage stood giant tent stands bearing monochrome photos of each of the ANC's 12 president

   

  

Archbishop Desmond Tutu (left), South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson (right) pose with the ANC flame at the Wesleyan church in Bloemfontein

South African President and President of the African National Congress (ANC), Jacob Zuma (C) waves at thousands of supporters

ANC Youth Leader Expelled

 

Julius Malema, the firebrand leader of the Youth League of the governing ANC was expelled from the party in a decision announced on Wednesday Feb 29,2012  bringing an abrupt halt to the meteoric rise of one of the most polarizing figures to emerge on the political scene of post-apartheid South Africa.
Julius Malema,who has repeatedly clashed with South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma and other party leaders, had earlier been suspended from the party  for five years for “sowing divisions within the organization and bringing the organization into disrepute,” according to the party.