...THE FREEDOM CHARTER We the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people; that...

...its preamble that We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. Black and White, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people.25 Seizing...

...freedom charter of South Africa will become a reality. That charter envisions and includes the following. South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black...government can justly claim authority unless it is based upon the will of all the people. Every man and woman shall have the right to vote and stand as a candidate...

...reality. That charter envisions and includes the following. South Africa belongs to all who live in at, black and white, and no government can justly claim authority unless it is based upon the will of all the people. Every man and woman shall have the right to vote and stand as a candidate...

...3,000 people of all races adopted a Freedom Charter which defined a future South Africa. It began: 'South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.'* The Charter became the policy of a Congress Alliance in which the ANC was joined by the SA Indian Congress,...

...unity as its dedication to nonracialism came under bitter Africanist denunciations. To accept the idea that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, was to reject what the Africanists perceived as the African's inalienable rights of total ownership...

...grateful to him. We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people; that...

...1959 by an 'Africanist' breakaway faction of ANC. It objected to the provision in the 1955 Freedom Charter that "South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white" and to the economic clauses calling for nationalization of the mines, banks, monopoly industries and large...

...Charter begins with a sentence that encapsulated ANC multiracialism while it infuriated Africanists — "South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white." With the distinction between "multiracialism" and "nonracialism" in mind, Archie Mafeje advises that...

...to challenge apartheid, in the preamble to its Freedom Charter called for national unity, asserting that 'South Africa belongs to all who live in it black and white', and highlighting that all South Africans deserve to be treated as equals. The initial position of the ANC...