Shadow of Liberation

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Vishnu Padayachee. Shadow of Liberation
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SHADOW OF LIBERATION
Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943–1996
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It reiterated political citizenship as its primary demand: ‘We cannot and never shall compromise on our fundamental demands, as set forth in the Freedom Charter, for the full and unqualified rights of all our people as equal citizens of our country. We do not ask for more than that; but we shall never be satisfied with anything less’ (in Karis and Carter 1987: 573).
Finally, the statement listed a set of proposals calling for the end of the state of emergency and the release of political prisoners, scrapping the system of pass laws, and doing away with laws curbing civil and political rights, concluding with the demand for a ‘new National Convention representing all people on a fully democratic basis, [which] must be called to lay the foundations of a new union, a non-racial democracy, belonging to all South Africans, and in line with the United Nations Charter and the views of all enlightened people everywhere in the world’ (in Karis and Carter 1987: 573).
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