Historian and academic Professor Pitika Ntuli says the majority of the Freedom Charter’s promises have been abandoned.
This comes as South Africa commemorates the 70th anniversary of the charter.
The African National Congress (ANC) will hold a briefing at the Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto, as part of the commemoration of the Freedom Charter that was adopted there 70 years ago.
Ntuli says the charter has lost its value.
He says, “We come up with brilliant ideas, you know the RDP, Reconstruction and Development. What is it that we are reconstructing? What is it that we are developing? The agenda was very clear; all it needs is ideology to implement it.”
“Then we also came up with the Chapter 9 institutions, all of them that we have geared to fulfil that kind of chapters, but then somewhere along the line neo-colonialism, that template of oppression took over the ruling class that it became now more about myself-serving, greed and corruption.”-Reporting by Kholo Tefo.
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