ANC supporters attacked in party violence: reportsNine supporters of South Africa's ruling ANC ANC abbr. African National Congress ANC African National Congress: South African political movement instrumental in bringing an end to apartheid ANC n abbr (= were injured Sunday, including three from gunshots, in attacks as the party campaigned in the stronghold of its historical foes in Kwa-Zulu Natal province Natal was a province of South Africa from 1910 until 1994. The Natal Province included the bantustan of KwaZulu. Natal Province was the only province to vote no to the creation of a republic in the South African referendum, 1960. , local media reported Sunday. The shooting prompted African National Congress African National Congress (ANC), the oldest black (now multiracial) political organization in South Africa; founded in 1912. Prominent in its opposition to apartheid, the organization began as a nonviolent civil-rights group. leader Jacob Zuma to call for political tolerance, amid rising tensions between his party and the smaller Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party Inkatha Freedom Party Political party in South Africa consisting largely of the Zulu. It originated in 1924 as a cultural movement under King Dinizulu. His grandson, Mangosuthu G. (IFP (1) (Intelligent Forms Processing) Using advanced techniques to scan documents and determine their data content. See ICR. (2) (Integer Factorization Problem) The difficulty of finding prime numbers in an encryption key. ) which once ruled in the province. "I am very concerned about the attacks. The matter will be taken to the Independent Electoral Commission South Africa The Independent Electoral Commission in South Africa has managed all the country's national and local government elections since the first multiracial election on 27 April 1994. (IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iec.ch) An organization that sets international electrical and electronics standards founded in 1906. It is made up of national committees from over 60 countries. IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission ). We believe that the IEC will take necessary steps," Zuma told thousands of party supporters in Nongoma in northern Zululand, according to the SAPA SAPA South African Press Association SAPA Società in Accomandita Per Azioni (Italy) SAPA Society of Army Physician Assistants SAPA Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site (US National Park Service) news agency. Police spokeswoman Phindile Radebe said an ANC member of parliament and two unidentified women were shot while travelling from a rally. All survived, according to SAPA. Police were forced to intervene when IFP supporters blocked buses carrying ANC supporters between Nongoma and Ulundi on Sunday morning, and about six ANC members were said to be seriously injured in the attack, which the IFP has denied. Tensions between the IFP and the ANC have always been fraught with often violent clashes between the parties in the late 1980s and when apartheid came to an end in the early 1990s. Thousands died in political violence in Kwa-Zulu Natal where the parties later shared power after a 1999 peace deal, before the ANC won a majority in the province in 2004 general elections. This weekend, as both held political rallies in Nongoma, SAPA reported that the army was called in to help hundreds of police deployed to maintain peace. The ANC changed the venue for its rally, meant to be held right alongside the IFP, for "logistical reasons. We have done that to avoid clashes," ANC spokeswoman Nomfundo Mcetywa told SAPA. The attacks come after two weeks in which another ANC member was shot and injured and two shot dead in the same region. On Saturday Bongani Ngcobo, chairman of the Nongoma sub region was shot allegedly by an IFP councillor in full view of his colleagues at the ANC office in Nongoma. The chairman of the ANC Youth League in KwaZulu-Natal's Umgababa on the south coast, Sthembiso Cele, 27, was shot dead on January 22. Another ANC high profile member, Inkosi Mbongeleni Zondi was also shot dead in Durban's Umlazi Township on Thursday morning. 
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