How ANC justified Freedom Charter propaganda

IT IS absurd that people commemorate or celebrate distorted events out of being misinformed. Generations need to be salvaged from this scourge of deception!

- THEMBILE NDABENI

Records must be put straight!

The Freedom Charter was controversial from the outset. Firstly, the ANC did not meet alone and never consulted its “constituency” broadly before deciding to work with other formations. Secondly, the way the Freedom Charter was drafted; in fact who drafted it?

It is clear that the Communists, especially Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein, dominated the drafting. This was why Jordan Ngubane, an African politician, journalist, former ANC Youth League founder and a highest ranking African in the Liberal Party said the Charter's ultimate aim was “to condition the African people to accept communism via the back door”.

It was not only communism that was being accepted through the back door, but non-racialism as well. Stephen Ellis puts it: “the Freedom Charter - meant a non-racialism derived ultimately from the SACP...”

This is not about wrongness or rightness of those communist ideas but proving facts - Bernstein/communist domination. Even on the claim of delegates who represented the “four congresses”, the document was already drafted and brought forward afterwards. This is why the other Africanists broke away out of discontent!