Chairperson, hon members, in 1955 the ANC sent out 50 000 volunteers countrywide to collect "freedom demands" from the people of South Africa. This became the Freedom Charter, the statement of the core principles of the South African Congress Alliance, Saca, which consisted of the ANC and its allies, the South African Indian Congress, Saic, the South African Congress of Democrats, SACD, and the Coloured People's Congress,