South Africa: Numsa On ANC's 101 Anniversary

The class oriented and red metalworkers – all of us as loyal and disciplined activists and Cadres of the ANC – we send our revolutionary and best wishes to the ANC leaders, its rank and file and supporters on this august occasion of the ANC's 101 years of existence. For many decades, generations of workers and trade unionists in our country, along with progressive intelligentsia, women, student and youth formations and democrats, have helped in re-building and radicalising the ANC to take forward the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) as encapsulated in the Freedom Charter.

The ANC was formed on January 8, 1912. It was formed to unite the African people across ethnic divide, particularly the Black African working class, as a motive force of the NDR. Furthermore, the formation of the ANC was a response to the racially exclusive 1910 Union of South Africa settlement. Also the formation of the ANC was necessitated by the colonial dispossession of Black African majority of their land by colonist invaders.

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