News24 | FRIDAY BRIEFING | A 70-Year Reckoning: The Freedom Charter’s Unfinished Business

News24 | FRIDAY BRIEFING | A 70-year reckoning: The Freedom Charter’s unfinished business

Seventy years later, the charter of free people looks very different. In this week’s Friday Briefing, we take a poignant journey back to that momentous day seven decades ago.

SACP statement on the 70th anniversary of the Freedom Charter | South African Communist Party (SACP)

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The Freedom Charter's has lost its value: Ntuli - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

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 co…

Historian reflects on 70 years of the Freedom Charter

Historian reflects on 70 years of the Freedom Charter Janine2 Wed, 06/25/2025 - 20:20 Freedom Charter monument JOHANNESBURG - South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white and all groups shall have equal rights.READ: SONA 2025 | SUMMARY | Ramaphosa introduces the Reform AgendaThese are the lofty precepts of the Freedom Charter that turns 70 on Thursday.It was signed on 26 June 1955 in Kliptown in Soweto, by members of the ANC and…