Thousands celebrate ANC centenary

Tens of thousands of chanting and dancing revellers waved the green and gold colours of the African National Congress as Africa’s oldest liberation movement celebrated its 100th anniversary today.

A dozen African leaders and more former heads of state along with African kings and chieftains attended a ceremony where President Jacob Zuma lit a flame, expected to stay alight the entire year, at the red brick, tin-roofed Wesleyan church where black intellectuals and activists founded the party in 1912.