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African National Congress

African National Congress  

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(ANC) A South African political party. It was established in Bloemfontein in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress by a Zulu Methodist minister, J. W. Dube. In 1914 he led a deputation ...
apartheid

apartheid  

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The former South African policy of racial segregation of other groups from the white inhabitants. Adopted by the successful Afrikaner National Party as a slogan in the 1948 election, apartheid ...
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd  

(b. 8 Sept. 1901, d. 6 Sept. 1966).Prime Minister of South Africa 1958–66Early careerBorn in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), his family migrated to South Africa in 1903. He studied at Stellenbosch, then ...
Inkatha Freedom Party

Inkatha Freedom Party  

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A South African Zulu political organization under the leadership of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. The party was founded as the Inkatha movement by Buthelezi in 1975 to counter the Xhosa-dominated ...
Nguni

Nguni  

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Several groups of ethnically related people in southern Africa. In the 1820s, the Zulu in the Natal area, under their king Shaka, developed a superior military force, made up of regiments (or impis), ...

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