The African National Congress, now in government, naturally wishes to make maid-madam contracts less feudal.
He later became the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 under the banner of the African National Congress.
However, his opinion on the African National Congress, South Africa's governing party once led by Mandela, was less kind.
Why is it that so many years after the African National Congress took power this is still the case?
The 31-year-old, who was youth leader for the African National Congress, was thrown out of the ruling party this year.
The foreign minister, Alfred Nzo, was given the job as a reward for years of loyalty to the African National Congress.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela at first advocated peaceful opposition to white rule in early work with the African National Congress, a liberation movement.
Nelson Mandela then apologised for atrocities committed by the African National Congress.
Selebi was a senior member of South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), and an ally of former President Thabo Mbeki.
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On April 27th she was re-elected as the president of the African National Congress Women's League, winning a thumping 85% of the votes.
On the other hand, Gadhafi also financially supported the African National Congress in its fight to end apartheid in South Africa, according to Dowden.
So when Nelson Mandela voluntarily steps down as leader of the African National Congress next week, it will be an event of some significance.
It's a long story, but basically before the African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994 they did a deal with big business.
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Baroness Thatcher was better known for her strong opposition to sanctions against the apartheid government, and for describing the African National Congress in 1987 as a terrorist organisation.
In South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , former minister and former wife of Nelson Mandela, was nominated as a candidate for the deputy presidency of the African National Congress.
Pistorius is also getting special treatment, the African National Congress Women's League said, adding that his family can visit him outside visiting hours -- unlike relatives of other inmates.
"The African National Congress Youth League welcomes the decision of the IAAF to clear South African golden girl Caster Semenya to continue to be an athlete as a woman, " said Shivambu.
Mandela and other members of the African National Congress have been on the list because of their fight against South Africa's apartheid regime, which gave way to majority rule in 1994.
As the African National Congress was grappling with its transformation from a left-leaning liberation organization to a party in power, Motsepe was developing his own convictions as a free market capitalist.
South Africa's 1994 election was dogged by malpractice: at one point the electoral commission imposed a news blackout on the count amid mutual accusations of cheating by the African National Congress and Inkatha.
The African National Congress governments that have been in power since the institution of majority rule in 1993 are credited with admirable, some say excessive, moderation in adjusting the economic imbalance between the races.
When the African National Congress came to power in 1994, it inherited big debts and a bunch of public utilities that guzzled subsidies and, for the most part, offered rotten service at extortionate prices.
Consider the African National Congress in South Africa.
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"The African National Congress has noted the determined efforts by some sections of our society to degrade the visit of the National Office Bearers to Comrade Nelson Mandela, " party spokesman Jackson Mthembu said in a statement.
"What it will do is make sure that there aren't any extra hoops for either a distinguished individual, like former President Mandela, or other members of the African National Congress to get a U.S. visa, " Casey said.
After leaving prison in 1990 following more than 27 years in jail, he led the African National Congress party to a landslide victory in 1994 - the first time South Africa's black majority was allowed to vote.
The African National Congress committee did not respond to CNN's repeated requests for comment, but it has said that the new bill is needed to update secrecy rules that have not changed since the apartheid era decades ago.
Mr. Mandela, elected South Africa's first black president in 1994 as a member of the African National Congress, served as president for one term after spending more than a quarter of a century behind bars for his efforts to end apartheid.
As these people make up the backbone of support for the African National Congress, Mr Mbeki has to be very careful not to criticise a leader in a neighbouring country who appears to be doing more to help the rural black poor.
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