(in South Africa) a political party, founded in 1912 as an African nationalist movement and banned there from 1960 to 1990 because of its active opposition to apartheid: in 1994 won South Africa's first multiracial elections
Abbreviation: ANC
Examples of 'African National Congress' in a sentence
African National Congress
`Render South Africa Ungovernable": the slogan used by the African National Congress and the United Democratic Front.