Panafrican congress

The Panafrican Congrès (Side Africanist Congress - CAP) is a political party of South Africa. Old liberation movement, it is born in 1959 from a scission from the wing more the Africanist of ANC, hostile with the integration of white in the leading authorities of the liberation movement and hostile to the influence of the Communist party of South Africa (SACP).

Its political project néo- Marxiste envisages to rename South Africa in Azanie (Azania), the party having taken besides thereafter the name of " Side Africanist Congress off Azania".

History

Robert Sobukwe was the founder of the CAP and its first president in April 1959 with Johannesburg. It made an immediate rival of the ANC of it to conquer the masses.

Thus, its first blow of glare was to precede the ANC in the organization of the distrust campaigns to the government. Whereas the ANC had launched a distrust campaign as from the March 31st 1960, the CAP decided to organize its own distrust campaign earlier 10 days the March 21st 1960. Sobukwe invited the blacks to leave their " passports intérieurs" (indentity card + to let pass) on their premises, defying the laws of Apartheid, and to express peacefully in front of the police stations.

To Sharpeville, the peaceful demonstration skidded in massacre. The police force killed 69 people and 186. the majority of the victims wounded of them were reached balls in the back.

It is following this Massacre of Sharpeville that the government of the national Parti Afrikaner issued the state of emergency and pronounced the prohibition of the CAP and the ANC. Sobukwe was arrested and imprisoned whereas many militants left the country.

In 1968, the CAP obtained its military branches.

In 1969, Sobukwe is slackening in quasi an indifference.

At the end of the Seventies, the CAP took part in the riots which ensanglantent the towships and took part in the formation of the black Conscience under the direction of Steve Biko.

With died of Sobukwe in 1978, the CAP is a movement without chief and real organization.

In 1979, David Sibeko took the direction of the executive body of the CAP but its assassination with Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania the June 12th 1979 plunged the party once again in instability.

In 1990, the CAP is again legalized at the same time as the ANC.

In 1994, its participation in the first multiracial elections is a failure, confirmed thereafter in 1999 and 2004.

In 2003, a wing moderate of the CAP makes scission under the crook of Patricia of Lille which constitutes the party of the " Democratic independent " (Independent Democrats).

Political project

Although partly founded because of its hostility to the influence of the Communist party, the CAP evolved during the Sixties to the Maoisme and the African Nationalisme .

Its military branches, rival of that of the ANC, were launched in 1968 under the name of Poqo then was renamed " Army of release of the people of Azanie" (" Azanian People' S Army" Release; - APLA) with the slogan with success " a colonist, a balle". Concretely, the APLA was unable to compete with the military branches of the ANC nor to organize the least military countryside.

External bonds

Official site of the Side Africanist Congress
Présentation criticizes CAP by the ANC
Publications of the Side Africanist Congress 1958-1995

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