Article: Mandela's ANC fights for a foothold. (Nelson Mandela, African National Congress)

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September 7, 1987
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Mandela's ANC fights for a foothold

For more than seven decades, theoutlawed African National Congress has led black opposition to white rule in South Africa. Its titular head, the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, remains a potent symbol of unyielding defiance. Now the unprecedented challenge to white authority posed by the black miners' strike is providing Africa's oldest liberation movement with a new rallying point after a thoroughly discouraging year. Over the past 12 months, it has seen much of its strategy called into question and much of its support inside the country neutralized.

The crucial objective at this point forthe ANC is to seize on the ...

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