2012 Event Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa, challenges party leadership by President Jacob Zuma at the opening of the African National Congress (ANC) 1994 Event Nelson Mandela and his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa 1994 Event South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland 1994 Event ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa 1992 Event Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators 1991 Event Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC 1991 Event ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress 1990 Event South Africa's President FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes ANC and 60 other political orgs 1989 Event South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela 1989 Event African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam 1987 Event South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young 1985 Death Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30 1985 Event South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong 1980 Event ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa 1967 Death Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies 1963 Event South African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested 1960 Event Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa and outlaws ANC 1958 Event South Africa government disallows ANC 1947 Birthday Eric Molobi, born in South Africa, activist, ANC 1942 Birthday Pallo Jordan, South African ANC member/heads, Radio Freedom 1926 Birthday Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader, 17 years in Robbeneiland Jail 1925 Birthday Christmas F Tinto, South African ANC'er/UDF-leader 1925 Birthday Gertrude Shope, South African head, ANC female section 1925 Birthday Alfred B Nzo, South African Secretary-General ANC, 1969- 1923 Birthday Wilton S Mkwayi, South African ANC leader 1918 Birthday Nelson Mandela, born in Qunu, South Africa, political prisoner, ANC, President, 1994- 1918 Birthday Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er 1914 Birthday Archibald J Gumede, South Africa ANC member/chairman, UDF 1910 Birthday Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader, ANC/SACP
