The USSR quickly responded with an airlift of ANC troops into Kasai and a supply of military trucks.

In October 2009, TAC issued a statement of Solidarity with Abahlali baseMjondolo condemning the attacks by ANC members on Kennedy Road informal settlement.

In October 2009, War on Want issued a statement of solidarity with Abahlali baseMjondolo in response to the ANC affiliated attacks on the Kennedy Road informal settlement and wrote a letter to the South African High Commissioner in London.

On the morning of 5 July 1967 10 Commando ANC, Jean Schramme's unit, launched surprise attacks on Stanleyville, Kindu, and Bukavu.

Patrick Chamusso was wrongly accused of the first attempt, and as a result of his arrest and torture he became an ANC activist and was instrumental in carrying out the second as part of the ANC's campaign of attacks on South African industrial facilities.

South-African agents kept an ear on the important ANC bases in Lusaka and Dar es Salaam watched the war in Mozambique, in which SA played an active role.

' de Witte goes on to write that on 26 – 27 August, the ANC seized Bakwanga, Albert Kalonji's capital in South Kasai, without serious residence.

He lifted the ban on the African National Congress ( ANC ) and released Nelson Mandela.

The PAGAD experience led the Western Cape provincial government to declare a ' war on gangs ' that became a key priority of the ANC provincial government at the time.

His parents were both teachers and activists in a rural area of ANC strength, and Mbeki describes himself as " born into the struggle "; a portrait of Karl Marx sat on the family mantelpiece, and a portrait of Mohandas Gandhi was on the wall.

In the following year, he left South Africa on instructions of the ANC.

He succeeded Nelson Mandela as ANC president in December 1997 and as president of the Republic in June 1999 ( inaugurated on 16 June ); he was subsequently reelected for a second term in April 2004.

Mbeki used his weekly column in the ANC newsletter ANC Today, to produce discussions on a variety of topics.

He sometimes used his column to deliver pointed invectives against political opponents, and at other times used it as a kind of professor of political theory, educating ANC cadres on the intellectual justifications for ANC policy.

When the ANC announced the election of its National Executive Committee on 21 December 2007, Mandela placed first with 2845 votes.

The interview attracted media attention, and the ANC announced it would ask her to explain the apparent attack on Nelson Mandela.

** The South African government and ANC begin talks on ending Apartheid in South Africa.

Patient work by the ANC slowly rebuilt the organisation inside South Africa and it was the ANC, with communists in prominent positions, who were able to capitalize on the wave of anger that swept young South Africans during and after the Soweto Uprising of 1976.

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

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 5 August, 2005, all NNP members of parliament became members of the ANC, in accordance with South African parliamentary floor crossing legislation ( a series of laws which allow politicians, elected on one party ticket, to defect to other parties ).

He instead spent 25 years in custody on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela, whom he had brought into the ANC, now South Africa ′ s governing party.

It was named after Rivonia, the suburb of Johannesburg where 19 ANC leaders were arrested at Liliesleaf Farm, privately owned by Arthur Goldreich, on 11 July 1963.

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.

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.

A long-time anti-apartheid activist ( from 1969 ), his lobbying of the ANC in 1987 contributed to it renouncing homophobia and making its first public commitment to lesbian and gay human rights.

The African National Congress ( ANC ) insisted that it should be drawn up by a democratically-elected constituent assembly, while the governing National Party ( NP ) feared that the rights of minorities would not be protected in such a process, and proposed instead that the constitution be negotiated by consensus between the parties and then put to a referendum.

He defended members of the Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC ) and African National Congress ( ANC ), was a member of the Unity Movement throughout the Early 70's and 80's before he joined and became a leading member of the United Democratic Front and was a human rights activist throughout his life.

The act facilitated the government take down of organizations such as the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania that advocated for black rights.

The full party support came after members of the national executive committee reminded party members that the ANC had fought for human rights, which included gay rights.

Gandhi's early life work in South Africa between the years 1910 and 1915, for the rights of Indian residents oppressed by the racist, white minority South African regime inspired the later work of the African National Congress ( ANC ).

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

While black members of the SACP were encouraged to join the ANC and seek leadership positions within that organization, many of its white leading members formed the Congress of Democrats which in turn allied itself with the African National Congress and other ' non-racial ' congresses in the Congress Alliance.

As the National Party increased repression in response to increased black pressure and radicalism throughout the 1950s, the ANC, previously committed to non-violence, turned towards the question of force.

After reading the document and realising the ANC, despite its numerical superiority, had been subordinated to one vote in a five member multiracial and trade union " Congress Alliance ", Lutuli rejected the Charter but then later accepted it partly to counter the more radical Africanist wing whom he likened to black nazis.

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.

At the time and even after becoming the first black president of South Africa, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher considered him and the ANC to be " terrorists ".

Seeking to bring Africans into the established political processes, and hoping they would shun the recently formed African National Congress ( ANC ) parties, Welensky hit out at what he saw as the poor Colonial Office practice of making the situation " of two opposed policies, black rule and white rule.

In the years after the Soweto Uprising of 1976 black consciousness declined was marginalized as a political force in South Africa, as the ANC demonstrated that it could both opportunistically put a guerilla army in the field against apartheid as well as lead a new wave of liberal accommodationist and capitalist collaborationist mass organisations, such as the United Democratic Front.

Despite his association with the ANC, for instance, he also maintained ties with the black consciousness movement and the Pan Africanist Congress.

These discriminatory regulations fueled a growing discontentment from the black population and the ANC began the Defiance Campaign to oppose the pass laws.

If the ANC could not defeat the white government's massive army with small bands of professional guerrilla fighters, it was able to eventually win power through ordinary black peoples ' determination to make South Africa ungovernable by a white government.