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South Africans attend on January 8, 2012 celebrations of the centenary of Africa’s oldest liberation movement, South Africa’s ruling ANC, with some 100,000 people at a rally in Bloemfontein. The mass event with a centenary torch that was lit at midnight in the normally sleepy central city of Bloemfontein wraps up weekend celebrations for the African National Congress, which Nelson Mandela led to power after the fall of apartheid. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER JOE