PAC

PAC (Pan Africanist Congress) A militant South African political movement founded in 1959 by disgruntled members of the ANC, rejecting that organization's multi-racial attitudes and its sympathies towards Communism, and aiming to create a greater sense of urgency in the campaign against apartheid. Hence, it identified the struggle against White rule with the simultaneous struggle for decolonization elsewhere on the African continent. Led by Sobukwe, it quickly organized mass protest against the pass laws which led to the Sharpeville Massacre. Banned in 1960, its organization had been destroyed by South African police by 1965. At one time almost as strong as the ANC, the PAC's support rapidly declined after its legalization in 1990, so that it managed to attract only 1.2 per cent of the popular vote in the 1994 elections. This was the result of the poor leadership of Clarence Makwetu, the lack of external funding, and its misjudgement of the general mood amongst Blacks, which proved unsusceptible to its traditional radical slogan of ‘one [White] settler, one bullet’. In the 1999 general elections, its parliamentary representation declined yet further, to three seats.

http://www.paca.org.za