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African National Congress

noun

  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 ANC


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Ichikowitz said he served between 1992 and 1994 as a glorified gofer for the African National Congress.

There is no question that some, maybe many, in the African National Congress were communists.

The protest had been called by the Pan-Africanist Congress, a rival of Mandela's African National Congress.

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