Struggle not over: anti-apartheid activist
Anti-apartheid activist and former Member of Parliament, Professor Benjamin Turok does not believe the change that South Africa has gone through in the last two decades is what was envisioned in the Freedom Charter.
Turok delivered a lecture on the Freedom Charter in Durban yesterday evening.
He says while more South Africans today have access to water, electricity and housing - the struggle is not over.
"What we thought of in the Freedom Charter was that this would be a country at peace. It would be a country with dignity. It would be a country with respect between the citizens. It would be a country of racial equality.
"Don't forget the first sentence in the Freedom Charter, 'South Africa belongs to all who live in it, all who live in it, black and white'," he said.
Professer Turok says race remains an issue.
"We are here in Durban, the home of MP Naicker, the home of the Natal Indian Congress. Somehow I don't feel that the Indian people of KwaZulu-Natal are as involved, as active and have a profile as they had in the days of the Freedom Charter.
"I'm not sure that we've integrated the Indian people in our struggle, in our government in the way that the Freedom Charter wanted us to do," he said.
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