Word: anc
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...ritual sacrifice, Shultz testified for four hours in a crowded Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing room. The Secretary went out of his way to suggest that the Administration was not inflexible in its opposition to sanctions and that he was interested in talking with the leaders of the ANC, which he called "an important part of the South African political equation." Despite this peace offering, he was excoriated by a succession of Democratic Senators, topped off by a histrionic display of outrage by Delaware Senator Joseph Biden...
Both Steiner and Heimert scoffed at the idea ofcontacting the African National Congress, a exiledrebel organization. Neo Mnumza, chiefrepresentative of the ANC at the United Nations,released a statement opposing the internshipprogram which was quoted in the SASC report...
...long history of non-violent resistance in South Africa. Long before apartheid was codified into a coherent system of racial oppression after World War II, South Africans of all races participated in non-violent struggles against institutionalized racism. From its inception in 1912, until 1960, the African National Congress (ANC) waged what may well have been the longest campaign of non-violent resistance to overtly violent repression ever. This resistance reached a head with the defiance campaigns of the 1950s--a series of mass protests against discriminatory laws quite similar to the marches and sit-ins of the civil rights...
...ANC steadfastly pursued non-violent protest until the Sharpville massacre made it all too clear that violence was the basis of political power in South Africa. On March, 21 1960, police at Sharpville in the Transvaal opened fire on people who were peacefully protesting the pass laws. Sixty-nine men, women and children were killed. The government's message was clear: we do not care what you think, and if you oppose apartheid, we will put you in jail or kill...
Activity draped the yellow, green, and black ANC, flag over the door to Mass Hill, Which they dubbed "Biko Hall" atter Stephen Biko, the slain Black leader...