caa a22 4500 386371202 CHVBK 20180307111959.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021855300008020 doi S0021855300008020 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021855300008020 Sanders A. J. G. M. The Freedom Charter and Ethnicity— towards a Communitarian South African Society [Elektronische Daten] [A. J. G. M. Sanders] At national as well as international level the South African Freedom Charter has become a symbol of the long-standing struggle against apartheid. In this essay the emphasis will be on the charter's provisions relating to ethnicity. The question of ethnicity is a crucial one, for on its solution depends the outcome of the economic and other social problems which trouble South African society. The 1955 Freedom Charter, which was the outcome of a joint venture of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), the South African Indian Congress, the South African Coloured People's Organisation and the predominantly European South African Congress of Democrats, suggests a unitary, participatory welfare state, which will acccord equal rights to all "national groups and races”. For the A.N.C., the senior partner in the "Congress Alliance”, the reference in the charter to "national groups and races” soon became a major headache. Could it be said that the charter lent support to the creation of "four nations”? A number of people within the A.N.C. feared that much. Prominent among them were the "Africanists” who in April 1959 broke away from the A.N.C, and formed the Pan-Africanist Congress (P.A.C.) "Charterists” and "Africanists” are still at loggerheads, but the A.N.C.'s "Revolutionary Programme” of 1969 and its "Constitutional Guidelines for a Democratic Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1989 Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 105-115 0021-8553 33:1<105 1989 33 JAL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300008020 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300008020 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sanders A. J. G. M. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 105-115 0021-8553 33:1<105 1989 33 JAL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge