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  2. Freedom Charter - Wikipedia

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    The Charter continued to circulate in the revolutionary underground and inspired a new generation of young militants in the 1980s. [7] When the ANC finally came to power after democratic elections in 1994, the new Constitution of South Africa included many of the demands of the Freedom Charter. It addressed directly nearly all of the demands ...

  3. Congress Alliance - Wikipedia

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    This group, who became known as the Congress Alliance, developed the document known as the Freedom Charter and planned the Congress of the People, a large multi-racial gathering held over two days at Kliptown on 26 June 1955. At this rally, the Charter was read out in three languages (English, Sotho and Xhosa), and discussed by various ...

  4. African National Congress - Wikipedia

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    It also continues to claim the Freedom Charter of 1955 as "the basic policy document of the ANC". [ 63 ] [ 43 ] However, as NEC member Jeremy Cronin noted in 2007, the various broad principles of the Freedom Charter have been given different interpretations, and emphasised to differing extents, by different groups within the organisation.

  5. Congress of the People (1955) - Wikipedia

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    The delegates then returned home to report back to their communities or organisations to spread the adoption of the Freedom Charter. [4]: 80 By the end of 1955, 156 leading Congress Alliance activists were arrested and tried for treason in the 1956 Treason Trial; the Charter itself was used as evidence and eventually declared illegal. [2]

  6. National Conference of the African National Congress

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    The National Conference of the African National Congress is a party congress that is held every five years. It elects members to the National Executive Committee, the party's highest decision-making body, as well as the "Top Six" leaders of the National Executive. The next national conference, the ANC's 56th, will be held in December 2027. [1]

  7. Make South Africa ungovernable - Wikipedia

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    The ANC intimidated that its armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), would use military means to spread ungovernability to white areas of South Africa: announcing a civil war on Radio Freedom on 1 March 1986, MK commissar Chris Hani said that MK was "gearing itself to step up activity in white areas so that the entire country should be ungovernable ...

  8. Accord on Afrikaner self-determination - Wikipedia

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    The Accord on Afrikaner self-determination is a South African political accord that recognises the right of the Afrikaner people on self-determination. [1] The accord was signed by the Freedom Front, the African National Congress and the National Party-led South African government on 23 April 1994.

  9. South African Congress of Democrats - Wikipedia

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    The South African Congress of Democrats (SACOD) was a radical left-wing white, anti-apartheid organization founded in South Africa in 1952 or 1953 as part of the multi-racial Congress Alliance, [1] after the African National Congress (ANC) invited whites to become part of the Congress Movement.