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The Freedom Charter
13 November 2025
Copy of The Freedom Charter. Title in light green on white background. Headings in light green, Charter in black letteri...
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Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
13 November 2025
Comrades and compatriots,It is an honour and a privilege to participate in this Freedom Charter Forum organised by the A...
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Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
13 November 2025
THE present ANC is not 100 years old. It abandoned the fundamental objectives of the original 1912 ANC more than 50 year...
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A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
13 November 2025
A Marxist critique of the Freedom CharterThe first fundamental flaw of the Freedom Charter is that it is based on the as...
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Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
13 November 2025
Director of the programmeDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and all ANC Officials,ANC NEC members,Vice-President of COSATU...
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Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
13 November 2025
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984Chapter 5 - The Freedom CharterThe Freedom Charter, a progra...
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Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
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Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
13 November 2025
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of ...
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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1375 (XIV): Question of race conflict in South Africa resulting from the policies of apartheid of the Government of the Union of South Africa
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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1375 (XIV): Question of race conflict in South Africa resulting from the policies of apartheid of the Government of the Union of South Africa
13 November 2025
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1375 (XIV): Question of race conflict in South Africa resulting from the poli...
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St-Albans College, Pretoria
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St-Albans College, Pretoria
13 November 2025
The historic private school in South Africa run by a famous cricketer for 20 years-Anton Murray. The school was first op...
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Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso)
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Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso)
12 November 2025
Lecturer, novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor
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Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian writer, scholar and actor who inspired a continent
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Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian writer, scholar and actor who inspired a continent
12 November 2025
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Paula Ensor
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Paula Ensor
12 November 2025
Political activist, member of NUSAS and the ANC, banned person, exiled, labour activist and Dean of Humanities at UCT
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David Hemson
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David Hemson
12 November 2025
Lecturer, lawyer, author, trade union and labour activist.
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Haarlem
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Haarlem
12 November 2025
Sixteen kilometers East of Avontuur and 29 kilometers from Uniondale, a village was established by the Berlin Mission So...
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Nigeria
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Nigeria
12 November 2025
Nigeria's National Mosque is in the capital city of Abuja.Photograph by Johnny Greig, Alamy  
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