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Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
Leader	Letlapa Mphahlele
Founded	1959
Ideology	Pan Africanism
National Assembly members	1
Website
www.pac.org.za
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The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (once known as the Pan Africanist Congress, abbreviated as the PAC), was a South African liberation movement, that is now a minor political party. It was founded in 1959 after a number of members broke away from the African National Congress (ANC) because they objected to the substitution of the 1949 Programme of Action with the Freedom Charter adopted in 1955.^[1] Robert Sobukwe was elected as the first president, at the founding conference held in April 1959 in Johannesburg.

[edit] Ideology

It is Pan Africanism with three principles of African nationalism, socialism, and continental unity. Its body of ideas drew largely from the teachings of Anton Lembede, George Padmore, Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

[edit] History

[edit] Election results

[edit] See also

• Azanian National Youth Unity
• Freedom Charter
• History of South Africa

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Website of the Pan Africanist Congress in Gauteng Province
• Pan Africanist Congress Publications Collection 1958-1995
• PAC Speeches and Pamphlets

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