ANC
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Also A.N.C. African National Congress.
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Army Nurse Corps.
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Example Sentences
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South Africa's second-largest party, the Democratic Alliance, elected Cape Town's mayor Sunday to lead it into the 2029 national polls, stepping up a drive to take votes away from the faltering ANC.
From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026
He also served as the chairperson of the ANC for a decade and was the first premier of the newly-established Free State province after 1994, when South Africa entered the democratic era.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
Zuma was a long-standing member of the ANC, before breaking away to form MK to contest last year's parliamentary elections after a massive fall-out with his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025
The most famous case involved the Gupta brothers—Ajay, Atul and Rajesh—who were accused of using ties to the ANC to engage in corruption and bribery to misappropriate state assets, according to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
The Africanists within the ANC had been loudly voicing their grievances for more than three years.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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