Happy Centenial Anniversary ANC
I love you Mandela!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/08/south-africa-anc-centenary?newsfeed=true
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Mothusi Setshelenyane left home at 6pm on Saturday for a tortuous bus journey. Arriving in Bloemfontein at 4am on Sunday , he wasn't thinking about sleep. He wouldn't miss this party for the world.
"Under apartheid, black people could not do anything. Now we can," said the odd job man, 30, from a small town in the vast, arid Northern Cape. "We got democracy through the African National Congress (ANC). You must respect the ANC."
Africa's first liberation movement turned 100 years old on Sunday with a birthday celebration of song and dance, vuvuzelas and fireworks and a unity of purpose now too often lost in the day-to-day of South African politics.
This was a party yearning to rewalk the sunlit uplands of 1994, when millions queued patiently to vote for the first time and South Africa seemed able to defy political gravity.
The heroic struggle against a racist regime was remembered: those thousands who sacrificed their lives in a quest for human rights and democracy that took more than eight decades. So too Nelson Mandela's peerless act of forgiveness and reconciliation.