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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox political party|name=African National Congress|logo=African National Congress logo.svg|founded=8 January 1912|logo_size=150|president=[[Cyril Ramaphosa]]|legalised=3 February 1990|political_orientation=[[Neoliberalism]]<br>'''Pre-1994:'''<br>[[Anti-apartheid]]<br>[[Anti-colonialism]]}}<br />
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The '''African National Congress''' ('''ANC''') is a political party in [[Republic of South Africa|South Africa]].<br />
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== Liberation struggle ==<br />
During the 1980s and early 1990s, the ANC allied with other anti-[[apartheid]] groups in the [[United Democratic Front]].<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Gunnett Kaaf|newspaper=The Bullet|title=ANC’s Crushing Electoral Defeat: A Nightmare of Coalitions, Splits and Neoliberal Crisis|date=2024-06-28|url=https://socialistproject.ca/2024/06/anc-crushing-electoral-defeat/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629023702/https://socialistproject.ca/2024/06/anc-crushing-electoral-defeat/|archive-date=2024-06-29}}</ref><br />
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== Post-apartheid ==<br />
Under [[Nelson Mandela]], the ANC won the 1994 elections with 62% of the vote. It had major popular support for the first 15 or 20 years after [[national liberation]]. However, it began to adopt neoliberal policies starting with the [[Growth, Employment and Redistribution]] program in 1996.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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The ANC dominated South African politics for the first 30 years after the fall of apartheid. In 2023, former president [[Jacob Zuma]] split from the ANC to form the [[Spear of the Nation (political party)|Spear of the Nation]] (MK) party. In the May 2024 elections, the ANC lost its majority, dropping from 57% to 40% of the vote, while the MK Party won 14.58% of the vote, including 45% in [[KwaZulu-Natal]], the most populous province of South Africa.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== References ==<br />
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