 Although founded by ANC members who were in profound opposition to the policies of the South African Communist Party, in the 1960s a prominent section of the PAC's leadership adopted a Maoist position.The ANC consistently regarded the PAC as reactionary and backward due to the PAC's stance that South Africa was above all an African country.The military wing of the PAC was launched in 1962 as Poqo and later renamed as the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA).