The African National Congress ( ANC ) is South Africa's governing political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994.

The ANC is a member of the Socialist International.

The ANC flag is composed of three stripes – black, green and gold.

The Air Navigation Commission ( ANC ) is the technical body within ICAO.

The development of Aviation Standards and Recommended Practices is done under the direction of the ANC through the formal process of ICAO Panels.

* 1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.

The ANC is the ruling party in the national legislature, as well as in eight of the nine provinces, having received 65. 9 % of the vote during the 2009 general election and 62. 9 %

Govan Mbeki had come to the rural Eastern Cape as a political activist after earning two university degrees ; he urged his family to make the ANC their family, and of his children, Thabo Mbeki is the one who most clearly followed that instruction, joining the party at age 14 and devoting his life to it thereafter.

A controversial activist, she is popular among her supporters, who refer to her as the ' Mother of the Nation ', yet reviled by others, mostly due to her alleged involvement in several human rights abuses, including the 1988 kidnapping of 14-year old ANC activist Stompie Moeketsi, who was later murdered.

However, through the Tripartite Alliance and the sitting of many SACP members on the ANC's NEC, the SACP has wielded influence from within the ANC, often serving as an ideological opposition against the presidency and socio-economic policies of Thabo Mbeki ( 1999 – 2008 ); this became most apparent with the ouster of Mbeki from the presidencies of both the party ( 2007, by vote ) and the government ( 2008, by ANC party recall ) and his eventual replacement in both offices with Jacob Zuma, who is widely seen as being more conciliatory to the ideological demands of both the SACP and COSATU.

: As of early 2006, the ANC government announced that it will start expropriating the land, although according to the country's chief land-claims commissioner, Tozi Gwanya, unlike Zimbabwe there will be compensation to those whose land is expropriated, " but it must be a just amount, not inflated sums.

To be precise, neutropenia is the term normally used to describe absolute neutrophil counts ( ANC ) of less than 500 cells per microlitre, whereas agranulocytosis is reserved for cases with ANC of less than 100 cells per microlitre.

This region is the birthplace of many notable figures in South Africa's history, such as Pixley ka Isaka Seme ( founder of the African National Congress and the first Black lawyer in South Africa ), John Langalibalele Dube ( founding president of the ANC ), Mangosuthu Buthelezi ( founder of the IFP ), Chief Albert Luthuli ( ANC president and the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ), Anton Lembede ( founding president of the ANC Youth League ), Jacob Zuma ( current President of South Africa ), and Bhambatha.

It is still a public holiday, but the name was changed to the Day of Reconciliation by the post-apartheid ANC government, in order to foster reconciliation between all South Africans.

Boateng is credited with building a close relationship to South Africa's ANC government, and it was reported that he privately worked to bring together bitter rivals in the crisis in Zimbabwe,

Active noise control ( ANC ), also known as noise cancellation, or active noise reduction ( ANR ), is a method for reducing unwanted sound.

Although the IFP leadership favoured non-violence, as opposed to the ANC, which had created the Umkhonto we Sizwe, there is clear evidence that during the time that negotiations were taking place in the early 1990s, Inkatha and ANC members were at war with each other, and Self-Protection Units ( SPUs ) and Self-Defence Units ( SDUs ) were formed, respectively, as their protection forces.

The " prevention of a one-party state " is with regards to the ruling ANC, which is perceived by many as making efforts to undemocratically consolidate power for their own party.

Whites eventually joined the fight against apartheid, leading many Black nationalists to break away from the ANC.

The ANC and its members were officially removed from the United States terrorism watch list in 2008.

A significant portion of ANC leadership agreed that this violence was needed to combat increasing backlash from the government.

It also sets forth the redressing of socio-economic differences stemming from colonial-and apartheid-era policies as a central focus of ANC policy.

Following Zuma's accession to the ANC leadership in 2007 and Mbeki's resignation as president in 2008, the Mbeki faction of former ministers led by Mosiuoa Lekota split away from the ANC to form the Congress of the People.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 161 of 21 February 1961, called for the withdrawal of Belgian officers from command positions in the ANC, and the training of new Congolese officers with UN help.

The various efforts made by ONUC to retrain the ANC from August 1960 to their effective end in June 1963 are described in Arthur House's book The UN in the Congo: The Civilian Operations, pages 145-155.

Kaunda broke from the ANC and formed the Zambian African National Congress ( ZANC ) in October 1958.

While Kaunda was in prison, Mainza Chona and other nationalists broke away from the ANC and, in October 1959, Chona became the first president of the United National Independence Party ( UNIP ), the successor to ZANC.

* List of Umkhonto we Sizwe ( MK ) operations – from ANC

Following the 1976 Soweto riots – a student uprising in the township outside Johannesburg – he initiated a regular radio broadcast from Lusaka, tying ANC followers inside the country to their exiled leaders.

His penchant for quoting diverse and sometimes obscure sources, both from the Internet and from a wide variety of books, made his column an interesting parallel to political blogs although the ANC does not describe it in these terms.

Shortly after the conviction, she resigned from all leadership positions in the ANC, including her parliamentary seat and the presidency of the ANC Women's League.

The ANC drew its strength from western and southern provinces, while the UPP found some support among Bemba-speakers in the copperbelt and northern provinces.

** Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.

Pressure from the National Party government and the ANC ( African National Congress ) managed to suppress the two movements.

Following the repression of the CPSA, the party adopted a policy of primarily working within the ANC in order to reorient that organisation's programme from a nationalist policy akin to the CPSA's former Native Republic policy towards a non-racial programme which declared that all ethnic groups residing in South Africa had equal rights to the country.

The ' Africanists ' of the Pan Africanist Congress broke from the ANC not as a specifically anti-Communist bloc, but in opposition to the creation of a five member Congress Alliance executive that reduced the 100, 000 member ANC to the same status as the 500 strong ( white ) Congress of Democrats and three other small organisations.

After the arrest and imprisonment of Sisulu, Mandela and his father — and facing a similar fate — he left South Africa as one of a number of young ANC militants ( Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres ) sent abroad to continue their education and their anti-apartheid activities.

With victory a number of Communists occupied prominent positions on the ANC benches in parliament.

South Africa's second non-racial general election, held on 2 June 1999 was won by the African National Congress ( ANC ), who increased their number of seats by 14. Notable was the sharp decline of the New National Party, previously the National Party ( NP ), who without former president F. W.

The number of parties represented in the National Assembly increased to 13, with the United Democratic Movement, jointly headed by former NP member Roelf Meyer, and former ANC member Bantu Holomisa, being the most successful of the newcomers with 14 seats.

A number of African National Congress ( ANC ) members broke away because they objected to the substitution of the 1949 Programme of Action with the Freedom Charter adopted in 1955.

Quickly outgrowing its start among a small group of Cape Town activists, a number of whom had political roots in the Marxist Workers Tendency of the ANC, TAC became a much more broadly based group, with chapters in many regions of the nation and a largely black and poor constituency.

Absolute neutrophil count ( ANC ) is a measure of the number of neutrophil granulocytes ( also known as polymorphonuclear cells, PMN's, polys, granulocytes, segmented neutrophils or segs ) present in the blood.

A number of prominent ANC politicians attended marches.