Is the nostalgia for the Freedom Charter blinding South Africans to the ongoing struggles for land and economic justice?

Generations of activists, cadres and civic leaders placed their hopes in the Freedom Charter, seeing in it a roadmap to liberation. But even as it was being drafted, apartheid’s machinery was already ...

The Freedom Charter of principles are written out around what was meant to be an eternal flame© John MKHIZE Local residents say the Walter Sisulu square in Soweto is in a state of decay© John MKHIZE ...

Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto, where South Africa’s Freedom Charter was signed in 1955, is now dilapidated. Joao Silva/The New York Times ...

The Freedom Charter, a white communist diktat camouflaged as a “people drafted” document, is responsible for the split in the ANC in the period 1958-1959.

AKINWOTU: It's within the Freedom Charter Monument, a $30 million site built by the ANC government, including a museum, public square and a four-star hotel.