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Originally Posted by rach2005
As far as the ANC goes, wheter its politically correct or not, they were once considered a terroist organzation, and not only in SA, but around the world. Iniatially both the UK and the US labeled them a terroist group. And it was'nt only the Apartheid governemnet that was killing people, the ANC was to. As well, terroism and terrorist depends on what prespective you are looking at it from.
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Well, terrorist/terrorism has a dictionary definition and it's the "freedom fighter" moniker that is subjective. The ANC wasn't
considered a terrorist organization, it
was a terrorist organization. However, the ANC was fighting against an illegitimate government with democracy as the goal and when it looked like democracy was around the corner the terrorist activities were ceased. This is different to the terrorism plaguing the US which is against a (like it or not) legitimate democracy and does not have democracy as its goal.
I did mention that it was also the communities murdering/terrorising police informants/suspected police informants, but perhaps that wasn't clear. In the dying days of apartheid, when the elections were a certainty, there was a lot of factional fighting between supporters of the IFP and the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal in a grab for support for the Zulu vote. (The amaZulu being the largest demographic in South Africa and the leader of the IFP a member of the Zulu monarchy who had fallen out with the ANC after once being a member and forming a non-political Inkhata with ANC blessing.) While the apartheid leadership may not have been pulling the strings of this, however, it was certainly a situation that manifested out of apartheid. Chief Buthelezi was seen as an apartheid goon by the ANC having got dizzy by power while running KwaZulu, the Zulu "homeland" during apartheid.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia