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...“We’re still the custodians of the Freedom Charter,” he continued, referring to the landmark 1955 document that committed the ANC to the goal of a non-racial democracy....
...All Mr Ramaphosa’s negotiating skills will also be required in working out a new mining charter....
...The latter conundrum was particularly damaging for its aviation business, which specialises in charter flights for Australian natural resources customers....
...The businessman, whose early primary school education in a township school was interrupted by teacher strikes and neighbourhood violence, knows from first-hand experience how “structural unemployment problems...
...For a while the ANC thrived in those dramatic years of the Freedom Charter and mass protests, but it is easy to forget that it was supporters of its rival, the Pan Africanist Congress, who were massacred...
...It was in Kliptown’s square that the Freedom Charter, the document that underpinned the struggle against apartheid, was signed in 1955....
...But he provides little detail about any timetable for expanding direct elections beyond villages and the few townships where experiments have been held....
...According to the mining charter, mining companies should have 15 per cent black ownership by 2009 and 26 per cent by 2014....
...charter....
...Yoza Jekwa grew up in Mdantsane, a poor township near the South African coastal city of East London....
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