PAM, noun

/piː eɪ ˈem/
In historical contexts. Initial letters of Pan-Africanist Movement, an organization formed in December 1989 to represent the then-banned Pan-Africanist Congress (see PAC) within South Africa.
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The PAM was absorbed by the PAC after the unbanning of that organization in February 1990.
1990 City Press 25 Feb. 2The Pan Africanist Congress is to hold a consultative conference in Harare to discuss its expansion and working relations with the Pan Africanist Movement (PAM).
1990 Tribute Apr. 18PAM, the new Africanist grouping, was fighting the MDM in the Cape.
1990 Goodenough & Sigonyela in Weekly Mail 27 Apr. 8Five-person committees from the MDM and the PAM, set up in terms of the agreement, meet frequently.
1990 Race Rel. Survey 1989–90 (S.A.I.R.R.) 734The impending launch in December 1989 of the Pan-Africanist Movement (PAM) as the PAC’s internal wing was welcomed by the PAC as ‘a positive step in advancing the cause of liberation.’
1990 Race Rel. Survey 1989–90 (S.A.I.R.R.) 744In March 1990, following the lifting of the ban on the PAC, the PAM announced that it would dissolve to form part of the PAC...A statement said the PAM would be renamed PAC-Internal.
Initial letters of Pan-Africanist Movement, an organization formed in December 1989 to represent the then-banned Pan-Africanist Congress (see PAC) within South Africa.
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