representing people from all walks of life who met at Kliptown to consider and map out a vision of the kind of South Africa they would like to live in, which today we have reason to celebrate for the forward thinking of our forebears on that occasion.
During the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom Charter in 1980, the longest serving President of the ANC, Oliver Tambo, said the following:
The Freedom Charter contains the fundamental perspective of the vast majority of the people of South Africa of the kind of liberation that all of us are fighting for. Hence it is not merely the Freedom Charter of the ANC and its allies. Rather it is the Charter of the people of South Africa for liberation.
It was drawn up on the bases of the demands of the vast masses of our country and adopted at an elected congress of the people. Because it came from the