FREEDOM CHARTER BETRAYED THE DISPOSSESSED

Despite the background of racial segregation laws, in 1955 the authors of the Freedom Charter falsely proclaimed: "We, the people of South Africa, declare that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white ... and, therefore, we the people of South Africa, black and white together, equals, countrymen and brothers, adopt the Charter."

This was a colossal colonial fraud. Fifty-seven years after this deception, there are two "nations" in South Africa.

One is an extremely rich and white minority, and the other is extremely poor and an 80% black majority.

In 1943, 1944, 1948 and 1949, the Congress Youth League had formulated four freedom documents. The original 1912 ANC had adopted these documents as its policy.

It implemented them under presidents Dr AB Xuma, Dr James Moroka and Chief Albert Luthuli. The Freedom Charter defectors threw them into the political dustbin.