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The ANC or African national congress was formed in the 1920s but its most famous time was from the 1940s to the 1990s in which blacks fought for equality. Some of the tactics this group used can be considered terrorism used by the more radical members but many of the other party supporters were seen as freedom fighters. Much of this argument is based on points of view. To an extent the ANC can be seen as terrorist however it can be justified that they were freedom fighters.

The ANC is was a liberation and a freedom fighting movement. It was formed in 1912 to unite and equalise the people of Africa through means of political and social change. For a long time the ANC has been at the for front of fighting against racism and in equality through

It fought for the voiceless majority To the black Africans the ANC were what was needed so badly at that time and so was widely praised as a freedom fighting organisation as it is claimed that a freedom fighting organisation receives that title by the supporters. A freedom fighter is described as a person fighting for a specific reason in their respective territory or country. It then can be said that this was the ANC's main focus ,the people and fighting for the people no matter what. The people being the people of colour being victimised by the government and its laws. From 1940-1990 the ANC fought against the apartheid government through means of majority non violent protest who had been victimising the blacks, coloureds and Indians. The ANC was a resistance group that gained a lot of popularity because there plans were to abolish the government and its laws. A lot of the argument of whether or not the ANC is a freedom fighting group or a terrorist organisation is largely based on point of view, the government and its supporters saw the ANC as a terrorist organisation but the coloured population saw them as freedom fighters. Fighting for them. The ANC largely used non violent acts off resistance to the government that was in power such as strikes at work ,boycotts of beer halls, and protest against government

If the ANC had lost the fight and the apartheid government had extinguished the ANC struggle for freedom then the history books would be different thus like the quote by mark twain "history books are written by the victors" ,for example if examining the IRA or the Irish Republican Army who fought for a free Ireland from British colony control by using the same tactics in the same way as the ANC fighting for freedom however they lost and thus were labelled terrorist. This means that to a certain extent ANC owes there title to the fact that they won. But that is not the only variable to why the ANC is a freedom fighting group, because of the fact that the ANC tried to be a peaceful group and by in large succeeded in being majority non-violent in the strikes ,protest and boycotts. As well as that much off the violence was due to desperation, the pure desperation the ANC felt because off the laws passed after the student uprising and the pass book strike which prevented the ANC from fighting with non-violence in this way the violence can