ANC 100

My ANC: ‘We were put close to the gallows’

Professor Renfrew Christie (63) spent two of the seven years of his imprisonment in the early 1980s locked up in a cell next to death row at Pretoria Central Prison.

Watch – ANC centenary wrap

2012-01-10 19:18

Not sure what to make of the ANC's birthday celebrations? Watch this

ANC centenary ‘was no flop’

2012-01-10 16:16

The major logistical problems experienced during the ANC’s centenary celebrations in Bloemfontein did not make the event a flop.

Youth league ‘too late’ for centenary booklet

2012-01-09 16:32

The ANC Youth League’s message of support reached the printers too late to be included in the ANC’s centenary support message booklet, ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu has said.

ANC birthday bash clean-up underway

2012-01-09 10:54

A major clean-up operation has started in Bloemfontein where the ANC centenary celebrations took place.

‘Everything I wear has been given to me’

In 1991 at a no holds-barred national executive committee meeting, the recently unbanned ANC discussed how to curb corruption within an organisation whose leaders, fresh out of prison, were given the suits they stood in.

Children of the revolution

Watch – ANC 100: Where it all began

2012-01-09 15:00

We visit two key sites in the history of the ANC.

Zuma looks back

2012-01-08 18:46

President Jacob Zuma’s chose to look back in his January 8 statement, delivered in front of a crowd of about 35 000 people in Bloemfontein.

inside city press

ANC proposes a state publisher

Government wants to take charge of printing textbooks.
‘Papa lived and died in the ANC’

‘Papa never cried,” says Karabo Phakoe (30) as she wipes away the tears.
The best and worst of our water

South Africa’s best glass of tap water is to be found on Gauteng’s East Rand.
White Noise

Of all the work on show, it’s this depiction of the president that will set the most tongues wagging.
The return of protest pop

The new generation is finding out for itself how perilous political pop can be.
Soweto Rugby promises bright future

'We are not looking at this tournament as a black thing . . . we want to see it grow’
ANC woos white Afrikaans speakers

Ruling party to meet top leaders to get to the root of alienation issue.
An audience with a gentleman

Music industry’s smoothest dancer and best-dressed man, Ne-Yo, is heading to PE.

Centenary stadium packed to capacity

2012-01-08 15:12

Hundreds of revellers were still flocking to the Free State stadium in Bloemfontein this afternoon despite the entrance being closed since noon.

‘KK’ & Co. wish ANC well

2012-01-08 17:09

The ANC’s centenary gala dinner was a show of force for the support Africa’s oldest liberation movement still enjoys on the continent.

Baboon bull

2012-01-08 10:00

ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has slammed the name-calling and mocking songs sung about party leaders, calling them “symptoms of anarchy”.

Long walk to launch of biggest Madiba statue trips on deadline

2012-01-08 10:00

South Africa has to wait a little longer before the biggest statue of former president Nelson Mandela is erected in Mangaung, the centre of the centenary celebrations for the ANC.

Zuma leads slaughtering of ox

2012-01-07 11:18

This morning President Jacob Zuma led the slaughtering of an ox as part of the ANC’s traditional thanksgiving ceremony ahead of the party’s 100th birthday celebrations in Bloemfontein this weekend.

My ANC: highs and lows

2012-01-07 10:21

A lack of discipline and community involvement count among the areas in which the ANC can improve, according to members attending the centenary celebrations in Bloemfontein this weekend.

Kaunda gives Blue Train a miss

2012-01-06 17:50

Former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda did not take the ride aboard the Blue Train to Bloemfontein as expected, opting instead to fly.

ANC centenary: Sleeping on streets no problem for ‘pilgrims’

2012-01-05 08:57

Sleeping on the street would not worry ANC supporters at the centenary celebrations because “this is a pilgrimage”, Premier Ace Magashule said.

Mugabe won’t attend ANC bash

2012-01-06 13:03

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe will not attend celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the African National Congress.

ANC, govt dig deep into pockets for centenary

2012-01-06 10:01

The city of Bloemfontein is abuzz with the preparations for the ANC centenary celebrations – which has a multimillion-rand price tag – this weekend.

Ekurhuleni on high alert for ANC centenary traffic

2012-01-06 17:12

Ekurhuleni authorities expected high traffic volumes over the weekend as people travelled to Bloemfontein for the ANC’s centenary celebrations.

All the presidential men

2012-01-08 10:00

There have been 12 ANC presidents since the birth of the South African Native National Congress in 1912.

Booker Washington, the man Dube called his ‘patron saint’

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