PAC, noun

/piː eɪ ˈsiː/
Forms:
Also P.A.C.
Origin:
Initial letters of Pan African Congress or Pan-Africanist Congress.
1. The Pan-Africanist Congress, a political organization formed in 1959 by a group which broke away from the ANC under the leadership of Robert Sobukwe. Also attributive. See also Africanism, Apla, Poqo.
[1959 Rand Daily Mail 7 Apr. 1Nearly 300 Africans meeting in Orlando decided yesterday to form a new political organisation pledged ‘to overthrow White domination.’ It will be called the Pan Africanist Congress.]
1961 Survey of Race Rel. 1959–60 (S.A.I.R.R.) 15Mr Sobukwe said that the P.A.C. rejected apartheid, but it also rejected multi-racialism.
1964 M. Benson Afr. Patriots 258Three hundred delegates unanimously elected Robert Mangaliso — ‘wonderful’ — Sobukwe..as their President. In his address to the conference he said the P.A.C. aimed ‘politically at the government of the African, by the African for the African, with everybody who owes his only loyalty to Africa and who is prepared to accept the democratic rule of an African majority, being regarded as an African. We guarantee no minority rights because we think in terms of individuals not groups.’
1963 A.M. Louw 20 Days 78P.A.C. and A.N.C. headquarters had been raided by the police.
1964 H.H.W. De Villiers Rivonia 61This claim [that Africa had been stolen by the whites] is also put forward in the slogan of the P.A.C.: ‘Africa for the Africans’.
1977 Drum Aug. 10The PAC felt the ANC was being controlled by white communists.
1978 Daily Dispatch 21 June 3PAC alive on Robben Island says witness...The Pan-Africanist Congress had adopted non-racialism, Marxism and the re-distribution of wealth.
1982 Govt Gaz. Vol.204 No.8232, 99Unlawful organizations in respect of which the provisions of section 69 (7) are applicable 1. The African National Congress, also known as the ANC, including Umkhonto we Sizwe. 2. The Pan African Congress, also known as the PAC or Poqo.
1983 Pretoria News 28 Sept. 5Both had pleaded guilty to a charge of contravening the Internal Security Act in that they possessed PAC literature.
1984 Daily Dispatch 27 Sept. 5One quarter of the fund ($100000) goes to Swapo and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) gets $30000.
1986 P. Maylam Hist. of Afr. People 188At the PAC’s inaugural conference at Orlando in 1959 Sobukwe was elected as the first PAC president.
1987 Learn & Teach No.2, 4Many people in Sharpeville were members of the Pan African Congress — the PAC. They said on the 21st March we must leave our passes at home.
1988 P. Lawrence in Saturday Star 9 July 11The open palm, as distinct from the clenched fist symbol of black power..is the fraternal sign of the prohibited Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC).
1989 Reader’s Digest Illust. Hist. of S. Afr. 400Acts of terror, orchestrated by Poqo, the armed wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC).
1990 P. Cull in E. Prov. Herald 3 Feb.State President FW de Klerk threw down the gauntlet yesterday, unbanning the ANC, PAC and South African Communist Party.
1990 R. Malan My Traitor’s Heart 248In exile, the ANC was kept alive largely by Moscow and the PAC by Peking. Both organizations virtually ceased to exist inside South Africa.
1992 M. Mbatha in Pace Aug. 69Mlambo says the PAC will only negotiate in [sic] the sole purpose of formally transferring power from the white minority to the indigenous majority.
2. nonce. A member of the PAC.
1990 Sunday Times 12 Aug. 17An NP/ANC coalition will usurp all power and suppress the living daylights out of AWBs, PACs, CPs, Azapo, Democrats and anyone else who dares express a dissenting view.
The Pan-Africanist Congress, a political organization formed in 1959 by a group which broke away from the ANC under the leadership of Robert Sobukwe. Also attributive.
A member of the PAC.
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