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Apartheid: NP vs. ANC

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Apartheid in South Africa - National Party Statement vs. The Freedom Charter

Key concepts: Compare & contrast

Essential Questions:

  • Compare and contrast these two political statements?​
  • Consider which country would you rather live in?
  • pps. 50 - 64 of the Rights and Protest Course Companion book supports the resources on this topic

Statement by the National Party of South Africa, March 29, 1948
The Freedom Charter, 1955

Read each document and consider the connecting questions posed by Facing History.

The Freedom Charter

The Freedom Charter handwritten on the wall Palace of Justice (S Wierda) 1902 Church Square, Pretoria
PHParsons [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons. 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/The_Freedom_Charter_wrote_on_the_wall_
Palace_of_Justice_%28S_Wierda%29_1902_Church_Square_Pretoria_054.jpg