Coming of Age: The ANC's Hundred Years of Struggle

The African National Congress is the grand old man of liberation politics in Africa.

As it marks its centenary, Nelson Mandela's party stops to consider its epic past, which directed South Africa's political evolution over the last century.

From its founding in 1912 to the almost miraculous transition to democracy in the early 1990s, the ANC had been a center stage in the fight for human rights.