The ruling party of South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC), emerged three decades ago as a global voice of conscience due to its central role in overthrowing the oppressive Apartheid government. Nelson Mandela, the ANC’s most famous leader, remains a global icon more than ten years after his death. Since 1994, the year Apartheid ended, South Africa has been elected to the world’s most prominent human rights body at the United Nations more frequently than almost any other African country.
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