Euronews
| Apr 6, 2013
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital in Pretoria after a nine-day stay for treatment of pneumonia and is now resting at home. It was the third time that he had been taken to hospital since December.
Euronews
| Mar 29, 2013
Messages of support for Nelson Mandela poured in from well-wishers including President Obama as the 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon remained in hospital. Doctors say Mandela, who is being treated for a recurring lung infection, is frail but is res...
Associated Press
| Mar 28, 2013
Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first black president, has been hit by a lung infection again and is in a hospital, the presidency said Thursday.
France 24
| Dec 18, 2012
South African President Jacob Zuma scored a thumping victory in an ANC leadership contest on Tuesday with 2,986 out of 3, 977 party member votes, making him the odds-on favourite to retain the presidency after general elections in 2014. This come...
Channel 4 News
| Dec 16, 2012
As iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela is recovering from surgery in the hospital, his ANC party is undergoing a battle over the future leadership of the country. It has been twenty years since Mandela made history, and many are wondering w...
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 5, 2012
Anglo American Platinum, the world's largest platinum producer, has sacked up to 12,000 miners in South Africa for staging what the company said is an unlawful strike. The industrial action has also spread to other mining industries with over 75,0...
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 26, 2012
The former youth leader of the African National Congress has been granted bail after being charged with money laundering. Julius Malema says the allegations are a political plot to silence his criticism of president Jacob Zuma. Al Jazeera's Haru...
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 21, 2012
Industrial action is spreading in South Africa, with nationwide protests and labor strikes showing no sign of ending soon. Production in the mining sector has already been affected as a result of the widespread protests, and demonstrations have ...
City Press Online
| Sep 18, 2012
Controversial South African politician Julius Malema was barred from addressing miners at Marikana on Monday, and escorted from the rally by police amid angry and chaotic scenes.
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 13, 2012
As striking miners roil South Africa, another unrest is also brewing as more than 40 schools in Northern Cape province have been closed. They've been shut by violent protests over what's being described as the government's slow delivery of basic ...
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...the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end South Africa's apartheid, was also strongly critical of past decisions made by the ANC governm...
— May 12 at 05:54 am
...the ruling ANC and of just how much it will take to unseat the party of Nelson Mandela. Every party entering South Africa's treacherous politica...
— Mar 22 at 09:07 am
...accused the ANC of being sell-outs and of complicity in the murder of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, The Star reported on Friday. Chairpe...
— last Friday at 05:10 am
...African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa is the latest organisation to condemn Swaziland's use of security forces to brutally quash democ...
The African National Congress is South Africa's governing political party, supported by its Tripartite Alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party, since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a "disciplined force of the left". Members founded the organization as the South African Native National Congress on 8 January 1912 at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein to increase the rights of the black South African population. John Dube, its first president, and poet and author Sol Plaatje were among its founding members. The organization became the ANC in 1923 and formed a military wing, the Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961.
It has been the ruling party of post-apartheid South Africa on the national level since 1994. It increased its majority in the 1999 elections, and further increased it in 2004, with 69.7% of the votes. In 2009 its share of the vote reduced slightly, but it remained the dominant party with 65.9% of the votes.
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