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Jesse Jackson attends ANC's 100th anniversary

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says apartheid isn't over.

The Chicago civil rights leader was among the tens of thousands attendees of the 100th anniversary celebration Sunday of the African National Congress, Africa's oldest liberation movement.

He spoke after a church ceremony Sunday. He says there's still “the agricultural apartheid, the manufacturing apartheid, the banking apartheid” and “the shipping apartheid.” Jackson says those are the challenges for the next century.

Many South Africans say the party hasn't delivered on its promises since taking power in 1994.

African leaders and former heads of state along with African kings and chieftains attended a midnight ceremony where President Jacob Zuma lit a flame.

Absent because of his frailty was Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president who is six years younger than his movement.

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