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SA Election 2009 Special Report
NEWS
ANC holding key NEC meeting
The ANC is holding its quarterly NEC meeting, to discuss the outcome of the elections and how to implement its election manifesto.
FEATURES
Cabinet to tackle Zuma pledges
Analysts say the new Cabinet matches President Jacob Zuma's pledges to smash poverty and boost development, but enormous challenges remain.
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INTERACTIVE
The African National Congress (ANC) has been South Africa's governing party
since the establishment of majority rule in April 1994. Members first founded the organisation as the South African
Native National Congress (SANNC) on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein - in order to protest injustices against the black
South African population. John Dube, its first president, and poet and author Sol Plaatje, are among its founding
members. The organisation became the ANC in 1923, and formed a military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation)
in 1961.
Source: (www.sahistory.org.za)
Website: www.anc.org.za and www.myanc.org
Telephone: 0867 177 077
E-mail: anchq@anc.org.za
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National Congress
Twitter: ANC Info
Physical address: Chief Albert Luthuli House, 54 Sauer Street, Johannesburg
Postal address: PO Box 61884, Marshalltown, 2107
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1994 Election: 62.65% | 12 237 655 votes
1999 Election: 66.35% | 10 473 175 votes
2004 Election: 69.69% | 10 880 915 votes
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PARTY LEADERS
Jacob Zuma - ANC president
Jacob Zuma was born in 1942 in Inkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. He became involved in politics at an early age, joining the
ANC in 1959. He became an active member of Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1962.
While on his way out of the country in 1963, he was arrested with a group of 45 recruits near Zeerust, and sentenced
to 10 years' imprisonment on Robben Island. After his release, Zuma helped mobilise internal resistance and was
instrumental in the re-establishment of ANC underground structures in the then Natal between 1973 and 1975.
He left South Africa in 1975 and became a member of the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) in 1977. By the end of
the 1980s he was head of the ANC Intelligence Department. Following the unbanning of the ANC in February 1990, he was
one of the first ANC leaders to return to South Africa to begin the process of negotiations.
In 1991, at the first ANC conference held in South Africa since 1959, he was elected the deputy secretary general.
After the 1994 elections, Zuma was appointed MEC of economic affairs and tourism in KwaZulu-Natal. In December 1994,
he was elected ANC national chairperson.
He was elected ANC deputy president in December 1997. He served as deputy president of South Africa from 1999 to 2005.
He was elected ANC president in December 2007.
Kgalema Motlanthe - ANC deputy president and president of South Africa
Kgalema Motlanthe was born in 1949. At school he was influenced by the ideologies of the Black Consciousness
Movement and Steve Biko. In 1976 he was detained for 11 months for furthering the aims of the ANC.
He was again arrested in 1977 and sentenced to 10 years on Robben Island. After his release in 1987 he served as an
organiser and later as general-secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
He was elected ANC Secretary General at its Mafikeng Conference in 1997. He was elected ANC deputy president at
Polokwane in December 2007.
Gwede Mantashe - ANC secretary general
Gwede Mantashe was born in the rural Transkei. He joined the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) while
working at Matla Coal in 1982. From 1985 to 1988 he was NUM regional secretary in Witbank, and then served as the
union's national organiser until 1993.
From 1994 to 1998 he was NUM assistant general secretary, becoming general secretary in 1998. He stepped down from
this position in May 2006, and was appointed an executive director at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).
In 2007 he was elected chairperson of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and was elected ANC secretary general
in December 2007. Like the deputy secretary general and treasurer general, Mantashe is based at ANC headquarters
full-time.
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