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The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election resulted in Nelson Mandela being elected as President of South Africa.
In December 2022, President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected as the ANC's leader in the 55th National Conference of the African National Congress. [143] On 7 September 2023, uMkhonto Wesizwe party (MK), named after the former armed wing of the ANC, was registered. The new party was launched in Soweto on 16 December 2023.
Soon after each national conference, the newly constituted NEC appoints – at least in recent years, by election [14] – a smaller National Working Committee (NWC), which implements NEC decisions and oversees the daily business of the ANC, including in the provincial branches and in Parliament. Some members are appointed full-time and have ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africans will vote on Wednesday with widespread anger over power cuts, joblessness and corruption threatening to end the dominance of the African National Congress ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) -South Africa's African National Congress said late on Thursday that several other parties had agreed to join it in a unity government but the details were not ...
The National Conference of the African National Congress is a party congress that is held every five years. It elects members to the National Executive Committee, the party's highest decision-making body, as well as the "Top Six" leaders of the National Executive. The next national conference, the ANC's 56th, will be held in December 2027. [1]
The Electoral Committee also announced that the election of the Top Six officials – which previously occurred in a single poll, with one ballot paper – would proceed in two stages in 2022: the president, secretary-general, national chairperson, and treasurer-general would be elected in the first ballot; and the deputy president and deputy ...
The Provincial Executive Committees (PECs) of the African National Congress (ANC) are the chief executive organs of the party's nine provincial branches. Comprising the so-called “Top Five” provincial officials and up to 30 additional elected members, each is structured similarly to the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) and is elected every four years at party provincial conferences.