Pan Africanist Congress of Azania

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Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
Abbreviation	PAC
President	Mzwanele Nyhontso
Secretary-General	Apa Pooe
Deputy	Victor Serakalala
Founder	Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
Founded	6 April 1959 (1959-04-06)
Split from	African National Congress
Headquarters	Khotso House, 7th Floor, Office 725-731, 62 Marshal Street Johannesburg, Gauteng[1]
Student wing	Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania
Youth wing	Pan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania
Women's wing	Pan Africanist Women's Organisation
Paramilitary wing	Azanian People's Liberation Army (POQO) (formerly) (integrated into SANDF)
High school wing	Pan Africanist Student Organization (PASO)
Pupil wing	Pan Africanist Student Organization (PASO)
Ideology	Black nationalism Pan-Africanism African socialism[2]
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Progressive Caucus (2024)
Colours	Black   Green   Gold
Slogan	Izwe Lethu!! Our Land!!
National Assembly	1 / 400
National Council of Provinces	0 / 90
Pan-African Parliament	0 / 5
Cape Town City Council City if Johannesburg 01 City of Ekurhuleni 01 Tshwane 01 Emfuleni 01 Sedibeng 01 Nelson Mandela 01	1 / 231
Party flag
Website
www.pacofazania.org.za
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The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, often shortened to the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), is a South African pan-Africanist national liberation movement that is now a political party. It was founded by an Africanist group, led by Robert Sobukwe, that broke away from the African National Congress (ANC) in 1959, as the PAC objected to the ANC's theory that "the land belongs to all who live in it both white and black" and also rejected a multiracialist worldview, instead advocating a South Africa based on African nationalism.^[3][4]