In this paper several interpretations of the Freedom Charter are examined. Particular attention is paid to the South African Communist Party's interpretation of it in terms of the theory of national-democratic revolution. The origins of this theory are identified in the analysis of the ...
The Freedom Charter represents a desire to create a society that is based on common citizenship and democracy in a society divided in all aspects of its life. This paper problematises and interrogates the Charter's theoretical and philosophical claim on land. It uses the methodology of Afro...
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The three last-named organizations work together to realize a single program, the Freedom Charter, which was adopted in 1955. Other organizations of the black population include the Black People’s Convention, founded in 1972, which opposes apartheid, and the Pan-African-ist Congress of Azania,...
and sympathetic whites. TheFreedom Charterwas adopted, asserting that “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black or white, and no Government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people.” The government broke up the meeting, subsequently arrested more than...
South African politician Thabo Mbeki, who served as president of the African National Congress (1997–2007) and president of the country (1999–2008).(more) Mbeki replaced Mandela as president of the ANC in December 1997 and became president of the country after the ANC’s triumphant win in...
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tangible sense of community, one which ironically, the ordered, walled, elitist northern suburbs lack. Inside Soweto, you will visit the Kliptown Open Air Museum where delegates met in 1955 to adopt the Freedom Charter, now the cornerstone of the Bill of Rights and the South African ...
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In contemporary public discourse, the Freedom Charter is invoked by grassroots organizations once more when referring to the many challenges postapartheid South Africa is facing. While the government notes that approximately 3 million houses have been built nationally since 1994, and access to electricit...