Keyword: PAC, AZAPO, IFP

PAC, AZAPO, and IFP

The Pan Africanist Congress, or PAC, was founded in 1959 and is a South African political party. Robert Sobukwe was elected as the movement’s first president. Due to the strict rules of the white-minority government, the PAC was banned from April 1960 until 1990.

(Learn more about Robert Sobukwe in South Africa, Part I - Robben Island).

The Azanian People’s Organization, or AZAPO, is a South African political party. AZAPO was founded in 1978 from three black rights organizations that had been banned by the white-minority government the year before.

The Inkatha Freedom Party, or IFP, is a political party in South Africa that was founded as a black cultural and political movement in KwaZulu Natal in 1975. When the ANC and PAC were banned in 1960 by the white-minority government, the Inkatha Freedom Party became the only public black rights organization operating in South Africa.

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