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Roads Led to Kliptown on Day of the Freedom Charter Dispatches independentTHE SUNDAY 17 JUNE 28 2015 The Freedom Charter Focus on charter takes is as relevant today as it was 60 years ago LL SOUTH Africans should eyes off political elite celebrate the 60th anni- versary of the Freedom Charter, adopted by the Congress of the People in AKliptown on June 26, 1955, with great WONDER whether the pride. It was not only a milestone in time has not come for the our own struggle against apartheid, ANC to consider the The emphasis in our time should be but a model for people around the question of convening a world who are struggling for liberation ‘I national convention, a from injustice and tyranny. congress of the people, on the country’s leadership and its The Freedom Charter not only laid representing all the people of this out a programme to eliminate colo- country irrespective of race or nialism and racism in South Africa, but colour to draw up a freedom charter priorities,writes Mcebisi Ndletyana also dealt with all the economic and for the democratic South Africa of social ills existing alongside apartheid. the future,” Zachariah Keodirelang It gave us a stunning vision of a totally Zwelinzima Vavi Matthews said on August 15, 1953. new kind of society, in which everyone A professor of anthropology at shared in the country’s wealth and people. At least 54.3 percent of South Fort Hare University, “ZK”, as he was was treated equally and fairly. Africans live in poverty and 14 million affectionately known, was speaking It was inevitably contentious. In their appraisal, “Reflections on That is why it is still so relevant 60 go to bed hungry every night. to the Cape ANC, as its president, at Officialdom denounced it as trea- the Freedom Charter”, Mandla years later.We have adopted a consti- Inequalities in income and wealth its annual conference in Cradock. sonous, while Africanists in the ANC Seleoane and Ben Mokoena are, in tution and many laws which reflect are still racialised. At least 56 percent There had been mention of a decried it as a betrayal of the strug- some ways, dismissive of its contem- clauses in the Freedom Charter and of whites earn more than R6 000 a need to call a “convention” to discuss gle for national liberation. porary relevance, while understand- give better guarantees of social justice, month, while 81 percent of Africans the thorny issues of the time, but Matthews, whose son Joe was ing the context that gave rise to it. human rights and equality than those earn less than R6 000 a month.The none championed the idea as ZK did. among those charged with treason They highlight the obvious points – of most other countries in the world. means of production remain concen- The ANC adopted the idea three alongside him, was bewildered by for instance, that education is not We have achieved the highest trated in white hands: almost all the months later at its national confer- the accusation. He was a law-abiding accessible to all and that wealth and expansion of social grants in the world top 20 paid directors in JSE-listed ence in Queenstown. man, whose name affirmed his deep land have not been restored to their and one of the best records for provid- companies are white males.This is far In mid-1954, following a request Christian faith. His grand-father, rightful owners. This is fair criti- ing the poor with houses, electricity, cry from what the drafters of the from the then-president of the ANC, Keodirelang, had adopted the names cism. running water and access to educa- Freedom Charter envisaged. Albert Luthuli, ZK drafted a memo- “Zachariah Matthews” after convert- It’s worth emphasising that a con- tion and health services. And there is no sign things are randum on the contents of such a ing to Christianity. ZK not only had textual understanding of the charter But we still have to ask whether we getting better, with unemployment at charter. his grandfather’s names, but fol- is a lot more helpful than a literal have built a society in which: an appalling 36.1 percent by the more A committee, the National Action lowed his Christian path. The char- interpretation. ● The people shall share in the realistic wider rate, including those Council, was set up to oversee prepa- ter’s assertion of equality, among Because it was adopted in 1955, it country’s wealth; who have given up looking for work. rations for the congress. It included other principles, was an affirmation goes without saying that some of the ● The national wealth of our coun- Economic growth in the first quar- members of the South African Indi- of his humanity. things it envisaged would be try, the heritage of South Africans, shall ter of 2015 crawled at a miserable an Congress, South African But the apartheid court latched unachievable 60 years later. The be restored to the people; 1.3 percent, so the prospect of any Coloured People’s Organisation and on to such words and phrases as world has changed and the dominant ● The mineral wealth shall be early relief for the unemployed is dim. the South African Congress of “action” and “going over into the economic thinking is different. transferred to the ownership of the The yawning gulf between the Democrats (for whites). offensive”, taking them as a call to Nationalising private capital would people as a whole; extreme poverty of the majority and However, ZK was not a member of violence. not be as easy today as it was in 1955. ● All other industry and trade shall the excessive wealth of the minority the committee, nor was he at the con- A gentle and a civilised man, ZK Recent revelations about the con- be controlled to assist the wellbeing of lies behind the mushrooming of often gress, held in Kliptown on June 25 dismissed the charge of treason in a duct of private capital, however, the people; and violent service-delivery protests in the and 26, 1955. He was then acting prin- way only a professor could: “The underline the absolute importance of ● The doors of learning and in poorer communities.We are sitting cipal of Fort Hare University, a role only explanation I can find for this the role of the state in the economy. culture shall be opened for all. on a time bomb unless we get back to that left no time for activism. alarm over such innocent metaphor- An AU panel headed by former pres- These surely have to be the corner- the principles of the Freedom Charter. Despite being absent from the ical expression is that, owing to our ident Thabo Mbeki found that tril- stones of the society envisaged in the All this is made worse by the historic event at which the Freedom bilingualism in South Africa, we are lions of dollars have left the conti- Freedom Charter, but the sad reality is scourge of corruption and the looting Charter was adopted 60 years ago, ZK becoming less and less able to follow nent illegally. Africa has lost out in that in practice millions of South of public money by tenderpreneurs, had set in motion an idea that would the idiomatic English usage.” His investment and revenue. Africans are still denied, because the corrupt politicians and officials and have a catalytic effect on the way his- white accusers were just not learned A leak by a whistle-blower at the inequalities and injustices we inherit- even some union leaders, who exploit tory unfolded. men! Matthews and his fellow THE INSPIRATION: Professor ZK Matthews set in motion European bank, HSBC, claimed that ed from apartheid remain in place. the climate of “anything goes”to get The charter was essentially a accused were acquitted. 2 000 South African entities had off- Inequality has increased across the rich quick at the expense of the work- political document intended to To the self-defined “Africanist” the idea of calling ‘a congress of the people‘ in 1953. shore accounts, some to evade tax. In board.The Gini coefficient, which ers, consumers and the economy. mobilise multiracial opposition to faction in the ANC, the charter was 2007, the accounts held a combined measures income inequality, stands at We face the biggest crisis since the apartheid with the aim of shaping a further proof that the liberation “Without fear or favour we have flunkeys and functionaries of non- R20 billion. 0.65, the highest in the world. Statistics birth of democracy in 1994, epito- different future. movement had veered off the course energetically laboured to clear the African minorities.” It has also been reported that SA shows from 1994 to 2010 the share mised by the statement of the Minister This inspirational objective was of African nationalism. The Afri- stinking mess left to us as a legacy by After failing to win the leadership more capital is leaving the country of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Police, Nathi Nhleko, on the exces- captured in ZK’s memorandum as canists found it particularly intoler- the opportunistic leadership that of the Transvaal ANC at the Novem- than is being invested internally. going to labour in wages, as opposed sive R246 million Nkandla spend. follows: “From such a congress able that it envisioned the granting served, loyally, interests other than ber 1958 conference, the Africanists The economy’s revival ultimately to capital in profits, fell 7 percent. The only way to fight back and ought to come a declaration which of ownership of land and citizenry those of Africa. We have relentlessly broke away to form the Pan African- rests with the state.
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