The Freedom Charter: the contested South African land issue

Sibonginkosi Mazibuko

Third World Quarterly, 2017, vol. 38, issue 2, 436-449

Abstract: The Freedom Charter represents a desire to create a society that is based on common citizenship and democracy in a society divided in all aspects of its life. This paper problematises and interrogates the Charter’s theoretical and philosophical claim on land. It uses the methodology of Afrocentricity and Africana critical theory to dispute the theoretical and philosophical basis of the Freedom Charter. The paper argues that the understanding, desire and vision of the Freedom Charter are irreconcilable. It concludes that the Charter reconciles the dispossessed with their dispossession, reflecting coloniality and white domination in South Africa.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2016.1142368

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