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Freedom Charter

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The Freedom Charter was the statement of core principles of the South African Congress Alliance, which consisted of the African National Congress (ANC) and its allies - the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats and the Coloured People's Congress. [1]

21 relations: African National Congress, Congress Alliance, Congress of the People (1955), Constitution of South Africa, Democracy, Human rights, JSTOR, Kliptown, Labor rights, Land reform, Lionel Bernstein, Long Walk to Freedom, Naomi Klein, Nationalization, Nelson Mandela, Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, Ruth First, South African Congress of Democrats, South African Indian Congress, The Shock Doctrine, Z. K. Matthews.

African National Congress

The African National Congress (ANC) is the Republic of South Africa's governing political party.

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Congress Alliance

The Congress Alliance was an anti-apartheid political coalition formed in South Africa in the 1950s.

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Congress of the People (1955)

The Congress of the People was a gathering held in Kliptown on 26 June 1955 to lay out the vision of the South African people.

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Constitution of South Africa

The Constitution of South Africa is the supreme law of the Republic of South Africa.

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Democracy

Democracy (δημοκρατία dēmokraa thetía, literally "rule by people"), in modern usage, has three senses all for a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.

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JSTOR

JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a digital library founded in 1995.

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Kliptown

Kliptown is a suburb of the formerly black township of Soweto in Gauteng, South Africa, located about 17 km south-west of Johannesburg.

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Labor rights

Labor rights or workers' rights are a group of legal rights and claimed human rights having to do with labor relations between workers and their employers, usually obtained under labor and employment law.

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Land reform

Land reform (also agrarian reform, though that can have a broader meaning) involves the changing of laws, regulations or customs regarding land ownership.

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Lionel Bernstein

Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein (20 March 1920 – 23 June 2002) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner.

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Long Walk to Freedom

Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography written by South African President Nelson Mandela, and first published in 1994 by Little Brown & Co.

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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Pan Africanist Congress of Azania

The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (formerly known as the Pan Africanist Congress, abbreviated as the PAC) is a South African Black Nationalist movement that is now a political party.

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Ruth First

Ruth First (4 May 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar born in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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South African Congress of Democrats

The South African Congress of Democrats (SACOD) was a radical, left, white, anti-apartheid organization founded in South Africa in late 1953 as part of the multi-racial Congress Alliance.

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South African Indian Congress

The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) was an organisation founded in 1921 in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa.

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The Shock Doctrine

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein.

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Z. K. Matthews

Zachariah Keodirelang "ZK" Matthews (20 October 1901 – 11 May 1968) was a prominent black academic in South Africa, lecturing at South African Native College (renamed University of Fort Hare in 1955), where many future leaders of the African continent were among his students.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Charter

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