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African National Congress - history.

Publié le 26/05/2013

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African National Congress - history. I INTRODUCTION Govan Archibald Mbeki Govan Archibald Mbeki was a leader of South Africa's African National Congress and a member of the South African Communist Party. In 1964 the South African government sentenced Mbeki to life imprisonment. He was released in November 1987. REUTERS/CORBIS-BETTMANN - history. African National Congress (ANC), South African political organization that has been the country's ruling party since 1994. That year, under the leadership of Nelson Mandela, the ANC won South Africa's first election in which the black majority could vote. Mandela was elected the nation's first black president. In 1997 veteran leader Thabo Mbeki replaced Mandela as ANC president. The ANC was returned to power in 1999 elections and selected Mbeki to succeed Mandela as South Africa's president. Jacob Zuma succeeded Mbeki as ANC president in 2007. II FOUNDING OF THE ANC The ANC was founded in 1912 as a nonviolent civil rights organization that worked to promote the in...

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