African National Congress

noun

1. ANC. (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

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JOHANNESBURG—Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress ended apartheid 31 years ago with a promise to build a prosperous future for Black South Africans.

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Mthethwa was a high-ranking member of the African National Congress, the party that brought in democratic rule in 1994 with Nelson Mandela as South Africa's first black president.

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They historically controlled South Africa’s major institutions until the 1990s, when the African National Congress pursued land reform to compensate nonwhite South Africans who had been kicked off their land under the apartheid regime.

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This became a rallying cry for white solidarity in certain internet forums and more radical right-wing media bubbles, overlapping with the separate and heated issue of land reform, a decades-old promise by the dominant African National Congress political party to address some of the leftover imbalances from apartheid, which had pushed nonwhite South Africans off their properties and allowed the white minority to take control of more than 70 percent of the country’s land.

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More recently, the idea of a white genocide against farmers became further charged when, in 2018, the African National Congress proposed changing the constitution to allow the expropriation of certain unused lands without compensation.

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