Chair, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that last Sunday, 26 June, marked the 56th anniversary of the adoption of one of the most formidable documents that encapsulated our national discourse for economic and political freedom in South Africa, the Freedom Charter;
2) further notes that the notion of a Freedom Charter was first mooted at the annual congress of the African National Congress in August 1953 when Prof Z K Matthews formally suggested convening a Congress of the People to draw up the Freedom Charter, which was adopted by the allies of the ANC, the South African Indian Congress, the South African Coloured People's Organisation and the South African Congress of Democrats as a framework document for the fight against apartheid and subjugation of our people from the land of their forefathers; and
3) takes this opportunity to join the masses of our people to recognise this day and the adoption of the Freedom Charter as one of the historic moments in the fight against apartheid and decisive indication of the unity of purpose that characterised the national democratic movement in waging a war against apartheid in our country and that the county and government should use this historic document as its guide to deliver.