JOHANNESBURG Nike Air Max 270 Noir Homme , May 11 (Xinhua) -- The African National Congress (ANC), a ruling party in South Africa since 1994, has won the 2014 general elections, but with reduced electoral support.
According to final election results announced on Saturday, the party won 62.15 percent of the votes nationally, down from 65.9 percent in the 2009 elections. With its Parliament seats now standing at 249 Nike Air Max 270 Blanche Homme Pas Cher , down from 264 after the 2009 elections, the ANC has failed to get a two-thirds majority it needs to bring about radical changes.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSAU), the ANC's alliance partner, said the reduced electoral support for the ANC "is small, but significant."
The party was officially founded as a resistance political movement in 1912 by John Dube and Pixley Seme, among many local traditional and other community social and grouping leaders. It was established with a philosophy of uniting all Africans in the country to defend their rights and freedoms infringed by minority white community.
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The formation of the ANC Youth League in 1944 by Anton Lembede introduced a new generation committed to building nonviolent mass action against the legal underpinnings of the white minority's supremacy.
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Together, they raised the issue of the police brutality against the miners strike and the wider struggle for equality in South Africa. The ANC also worked with the Natal Indian Congress and Transvaal Indian congress.
The return of an Afrikaner-led National Party government by the overwhelmingly white electorate in 1948 hinted the advent of the policy of apartheid.
During the 1950s, nonwhites were removed from electoral rolls, residence and mobility laws were tightened and political activities restricted.
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As opposition to the regime's policies continued, 156 leading members of the ANC and allied organizations were arrested in 1956; the resulting treason trial ended with their acquittal five years later.
The ANC first called for an academic boycott of South Africa in protest of its Apartheid policies in 1958 in Ghana. The call was repeated the following year in London.
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In the 1960s, ANC planned a campaign against a law which required blacks to carry an identify card at all times to justify their presence in white areas.
The party led massive resistance and holding unarmed protests. This led to the party being banned from political activity.
A military wing was formed in 1961, called Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), meaning "Spear of the Nation" led by anti-Apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.
MK operations during the 1960s primarily involved targeting and sabotaging government facilities. Mandela was arrested in 1962, convicted of sabotage in 1964 and sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island, along with Sisulu and other ANC leaders after the Rivonia Trial.
The struggle continued with more resistance and now involving negotiations.
In South Africa's first all-race democratic elections in 1994 Nike Air Max 270 Homme Pas Cher , the ANC emerged as the biggest winner with Mandela becoming the first democratically elected black president of South Africa.
In 1999, Mandela handed over power to Thabo Mbeki who ruled from 1999 to 2007.
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