The Freedom Charter reminds us that we cannot wait passively for salvation. Citizens must reclaim their agency—organising communities, monitoring leadership, and insisting on justice. The power to ...

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source of inspiration in the liberation struggle against ...

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa has maintained that his party, which failed to secure a majority government last year, used the Freedom Charter to implement progressive policies. He said over the past ...

In his inauguration speech, Zohran Mamdani drew directly on South Africa’s liberation history to frame his vision for New ...

Leaders of the African National Congress and 3,000 delegates meet to adopt the Freedom Charter in Kliptown, South Africa, 1955. (Drum Photographer © Bailey’s ...

Thirty years ago, the South African miracle came true. Millions voted in the country’s first democratic elections, seemingly delivering a death blow to apartheid. The African National Congress rose to ...

Clarisse Paron receives funding from the Nova Scotian government. Recent protests, like the so-called “freedom convoy,” have denounced government action in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by ...

In the German city of Hamburg on May 25, 46 journalists and editors in chief from 19 countries signed the "European Charter on Freedom of the Press." The charter establishes basic guidelines for ...