justly claim based thorite unless it 1s on the will of all the people; • that our people have been robbed of their birthright to land, liberty and peace by a form of government founded on injustice and inequality;
• that our country will OIUSDCIUUS free until all our brotherhood, pe joying equal rights and opportunities;
• that only a democratic state, based on the will of all the people, can secure all their birthright without distinction of colour, race sex or belief:
And therefore we the people of South Africa, black and white together equals. countrymen and brothers — adopt this Freedom Charter. And we pledge ourselves to strive logelner, strength nor courage, until make laws;
All people shall be enin the L Culo lane vall administration of the The rights of the people shall be the same, regardless of race, colour or sex;
All the bodies of minority rule, advisory boards, councils authorities shall be replaced by democratic organs of self-government:
All national groups shall have equal rights!
There shall be equal status in the bodies of state, in the courts the schools for all national groups and races;
All people shall have equal right to use own languages, Hand to their OWN folk culture and customs;
All national groups shall be protected by law All apartheid laws and practices shall be set aside. The people shall share in the country's wealth! The national wealth of our country, the heritage of all TACKIES. shall restored to the people;
The mineral wealth beneath the soil, the banks monopoly industry snall be transterred lo lne ownership of the people as a whole;
All other industry and assist the well-being of the people:
All people shall have equal rights to trade where they choose, to manufac ture and to enter all trades, crafts and professions.
The land shall be shared among those who work it! Restrictions of land ownership on a racial basis tillers;
Freedom of movement shall be guaranteed to all who work on the land;
All shall have the right land wherever they choose;
People shall not be robbed of their cattle, and forced farm prisons shall be abolished.
All shall be equal before the law!
No one shall be imprisoned, deported restricted without a fair trial;
No one shall be con demned by the order of any government official;
The courts 'of all be representative all the people!
Imprisonment shall be only for serious crimes against the people, shall aim at re-education, not vengeance The police force anc All shall enjoy equal human rights The law shall guarantee to all their rights to speak, to organise, to meet together, punish, preach, to WOrSHID to educate their children;
The privacy of the house police raids shall be protected by law;
All shall be free travel from countryside to town, province province from South Africa abroad;
Pass Laws. permits, ting these freedoms shall There shall be work and security!
All who work shall be free to form unions to elect their officers and to make wage agreements with their employers;
The state shall recognise the right and duty of all to work, and to draw full unemployment benefits;
Men and women of all shall receive equal pay for equal work;
There shall be a fortyhour working week, a national minimum wage, paid annual leave, and sick eave for all workers, and maternity leave on full pay for all working mothers; Mers Farm workers, workers civil servants have the same rights as all others Child com bound the tot system contract labour shall be abolished.
The doors of learning and of culture shall be opened! The government shall discover, develop , and encourage national talent for te ennancement of our cultural life;
All the cultural treasures of mankind shall be open to all, by free exchange books, ideas with other lands;
The aim of education shall be to teach the youth in South Africa as Inkatha the organisation made by the white racists. FACED with the black upsurge against the apartheid regime the South African racists are trying to resort to a tried and tested tactic: divide and rule. 1 ney Have utilised for thi purpose the exclusively Zulu puppet organisation Inkatha of chief Gatsha Butheles1.
Inkatha is a notoriously tribalist organisation and was used by the South African state : during the Soweto uprising of 1976. At that time members of Inkatha attacked nonAs the black struggle in South Africa has deepened, the United Democratic Front has grown in size and impor Inkatha's hostility to the UDF has increased with physical attacks being increasingly carried members of the UDF by Inkatha.
During the black uprising in Durban earlier this month 18 UDF supporters were killed. Many had their homes burnt by Inkatha and by the police.
Many ÜDF activists from the Luanda township took retuge in bearby Phoenix settlement set up by Mahatma Gandhi.
setțlement itself was attacked a few days later and much of it was burnt. The fire brigade and police refused to come to the help of the African and Asian militants at the settlement.
Instead, according
eye-witness reports, the toured the Indian township of Phoenix with loudhailers telling people THE PRESS in Britain, and in particular in thi United States, is attempting to portray the struggle 'increasingly black agains black'. Press publicity has particularly been given to of chief Buthelesi DICK CARTER looks at the role of Inkatha and the other attempts to divide the black population being that Africans had attacked Pheonix settlement because it was a symbol of Asians and that the Africans were township Asians.
The police organised a posse of Indians who headed off to the settle tacked hey would mainat tacked remaining African UDF activists had not the true situation beer explained by Indian UDF members The Group Areas AC in South Africa serves to strengthen the states hand in exploiting divisions centre of Durute waile ban, like all South African cities, is surrounded by In dian 'coloured townships. African townships lie it a band these The white area lies in the centre the nerve pulse of the city It is this which provides another • base for r attempts to divide and rule There should confusion. What is involv ed in South Africa in not 'black against black violence' as the press claims. It is the racists attempting to utilise divisions puppe organisations to maintair their own rule.
Needless to of black heard nothing the press in ole ce press 1976 whet DECK the lice semes hide on schoolchildren Soweto!
SEPTEMBER 5 marks the fourth anniversary of the Socialist Action 30 August 1985