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The American National Corpus (ANC) is a text corpus of American English containing 22 million words of written and spoken data produced since 1990. Currently, the ANC includes a range of genres, including emerging genres such as email, tweets, and web data that are not included in earlier corpora such as the British National Corpus .
The 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) was held in Polokwane, Limpopo, from 16 to 20 December 2007.At the conference, Jacob Zuma and his supporters were elected to the party's top leadership and National Executive Committee (NEC), dealing a significant defeat to national President Thabo Mbeki, who had sought a third term in the ANC presidency.
The 50th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) took place from 16 to 20 December 1997 at the University of the North West [1] in what was then called Mafikeng. Attended by 3,000 voting delegates, [2] the conference elected a successor to outgoing ANC President Nelson Mandela, who declined to stand for another term.
The conference is often remembered for Mbeki's biting speech during the closing session, which some commentators believe exacerbated divisions between Mbeki and the party's left wing. [6] At the 2004 general elections , to which the conference was a precursor, the ANC won a supermajority of 69.69% of the national vote, the most it had won since ...
Nelson Mandela left prison on 11 February 1990.. The African National Congress (ANC) was banned by the South African government between 1960 and February 1990. [2] In those three decades, the ANC was based in exile, primarily with headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia, and deviated from its regular governance procedures: in particular, it did not elect its leadership and take policy decisions at ...
Before the ANC was banned by the South African government in 1960, it held annual national congresses. After 1960, however, it held only sporadic consultative conferences abroad. In 1991, after it had been unbanned, the ANC held its first national conference in 32 years in Durban.
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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.